I got up early last Saturday morning and started my usual weekend routine.  Made myself a cup of coffee, a piece of toast and logged on to the AFR. Reading through the headlines, I came across many investment themes and ideas and couldn’t help thinking to myself “There’s an ETF for that!” Now this wasn’t

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Uber, the ride sharing company, was caught out last week after it was discovered they had paid US$100,000 to cybercriminals in October 2016, following the theft of 57 million customer and driver records worldwide. This has caused significant reputational damage to the company and clearly shows no company is safe from the ever increasing threat

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Exchange traded funds (ETPs) are an excellent option for those new to investing, due to a number of key advantages over other instruments: • Low cost • Liquidity • Potential for diversification • Low minimum investment amount • Wide range of investment choices available These advantages also make ETPs attractive vehicles for various trading and

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If you had hypothetically bought the S&P/ASX 200 back on 1 June 2015, it was trading roughly at 5735 which is close to what the S&P/ASX 200 closed at today (in fact it was trading 5720 as of June 26th).  So does that mean you have finally just broken even if you are still holding

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With the silly season upon us, I feel it’s the perfect time to reflect on 2016. It has been a big year for ETPs in Australia and around the world!  I’ll also try to make some predictions on where I think the future developments may lie for the Australian exchange traded products industry, as we

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The ongoing growth of the Australian ETF industry means that investors who have an interest in obtaining exposure to commodities are now able to choose between Commodity ETFs or Commodity Company ETFs. In this post I describe some of the key differences between these two types of products and why an investor may decide to

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There is an old saying within investment circles that goes – “Sell in May and go away”.  Well, just so you know, sayings are not always right! If you had done that this year, you would have missed out on a rebound of ~3% on the S&P/ASX 200, and ~7% on the S&P 500 (on

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With the price of oil below $40, some investors might think now is a good time to invest into an oil exposure and then sit and wait for the price of oil to eventually rebound. However, investing in oil isn’t that simple. In this post for the BetaShares Academy, I describe the ‘ins and outs’

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For my blog post this time around I thought it might be useful to provide a quick refresher on some of the key players involved in the ETF “ecosystem”. By now, you’re probably all well aware that ETFs are bought and sold like shares on stock exchanges (in our case the ASX), via either an

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With a lot of investment information already being brought to you on a regular basis by my colleagues through the BetaShares blog, including relatively heavy posts entitled “Investing in Times of Market Panic”, “Risk Markets Continuing to Sink” and “Investment Outlook Still Being Weak”, I thought I’d keep my piece light hearted and fun to

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