Vanguard launches first S&P 500 ETF

Vanguard, which now has five ETFs in Hong Kong, said the total expense ratio (TER) of the new fund would be 0.25% annually, making it the lowest cost US equity ETF available in the special administrative region of China. “Today’s launch of the Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the Hong […]

Nomura launches 2 Japan ETFs

“The ETFs will allow investors to gain exposure to Japanese equities while reducing the impact on their portfolios of potential Japanese yen depreciation against those currencies,” Nomura said. The products were launched under Nomura’s Next Funds, the brand for its ETF range, which has $52.7bn in assets under management. The products will track the performance […]

China and Japan dominate fund flows

Resurgent markets and easy monetary policies in China and Japan helped drive new inflows, with China representing $30.9bn, almost the same as Japan with $30.8bn.   Looking at asset classes, concern over volatility likely contributed to the robust capital flows into mixed flexible (mixed asset) products, which accounted for $27.4bn in capital flows. A major […]

UCITS funds are diminshing in Asia

“It is also pointless for UCITS managers to get excited about the imminent mutual recognition of funds (MRF) scheme between China and Hong Kong, as funds sold under this scheme have to be locally domiciled,” added Rachel Poh, senior analyst. The report is an about-face for Cerulli, which in the past said that the threat to […]

Baring vs fidelity china fund

Morgan Stanley Investment Management recently warned about a bubble in the onshore market, as the amount of money that inexperienced and first-time investors are borrowing on margin to buy stocks is uncomfortably high. Chinese retail investors are trying to play the valuation gap between China’s A-shares and their identical H-share counterparts listed in Hong Kong. As […]

BMO clusters ETFs to offer portfolio strategies

Prakash said BMO is not putting funds together, but portfolio strategies that are actually implemented by the intermediaries. “The implementation happens with respect to the intermediary using their platform and clients benefit from the asset allocation decision. We would work with intermediaries so they are able to offer this to their client base.” ETFs have […]

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