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ETF INDUSTRY PASSES THE $70B MILESTONE AS SHAREMARKETS RALLY 
The Australian ETF industry has extended its strong growth run, exceeding the $70B milestone for the first time. Apart from our usual wrap up of the month in ETFs,

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INDUSTRY SNAPS BACK TO ALL-TIME HIGHS AS TOP TWO ISSUERS EXTEND THEIR LEAD 
In a mirror-image of global stockmarkets, the Australian ETF industry has regained its previous peak some 6 months since market volatility began in earnest back in February.

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The first half of 2020 will go down as one of the most volatile periods in history for investors, as markets followed the Q1 slump with a stunning rebound in Q2.
The global ETF industry emerged from the turmoil in a relatively strong position.

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It’s no surprise that gold is surging right now, given escalating China/U.S. tensions, real yields at or below zero, and a weakening USD. On 28 July, the gold spot price reached a new all-time high of USD1,959 per ounce, eclipsing the levels set in 2011-12 on fears of QE induced inflation.

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At the beginning of each financial year, we typically receive many questions around distributions paid by ETFs. With the 19/20 financial year just a few weeks behind us, many investors will likely be turning their mind to the topic of distributions, so we thought we’d provide answers to some of the commonly asked questions.

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AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES DOMINATE FLOWS & SHORT EXPOSURES DOMINATE TRADING
In what will go down as one of the most volatile periods in sharemarket history, Australian investors turned to exchange traded products in record numbers in the first half of 2020. Due to falls in asset values,

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Sir Benjamin Franklin had some witty quotes: one of my favourites is: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” 1 June marked the day pubs re-opened in New South Wales,

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In my last blog, I wrote about Johnson & Johnson and Gilead, two companies leading the race to find an effective treatment or vaccine against the coronavirus, which has now infected more than 5.3 million people worldwide¹. This race is truly global,

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One of the few silver linings to the COVID-19 cloud is the benefit to the environment as a byproduct of shutting down the global economy – although many believe that this benefit is likely to be reversed once the crisis is over.
Separately,

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As the Novel Coronavirus pandemic has spread, we have seen continued interest in gold for asset allocation usage and as a trading thematic. Given its popularity in times of economic stress, we thought it worthwhile to re-examine the case for gold given the current market uncertainty.

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