Franklin Templeton on Alternatives, Capital Group on new leaders, S&P 500’s summer rally, BlackRock on Bitcoin, Abrdn too, Amazon’s secret weapon, ETF joy and much more.

Franklin Templeton on Alternatives, Capital Group on new leaders, S&P 500’s summer rally, BlackRock on Bitcoin, Abrdn too, Amazon’s secret weapon, ETF joy and much more.
The product uses a quantitative strategy and is suitable for investors with a medium to long-term time horizon, the firm said. The fund seeks to achieve capital growth by investing at least 90% in companies whose assets, products or operations are based in the US or are included in the Russell 1000 Index. Apart from […]
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 […]
Investors should, however, lower their return expectations to single-digits for the S&P 500 index, the firm said. The index has recently been hitting all time highs: “We continue to favour US equities, despite slightly higher valuation levels. The base case for the S&P 500 total return in 2015 is in the single-digit range, which […]
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