Vanguard Australia’s four newly listed Diversified Index exchange-traded funds (ETF) will provide investors, including SMSF trustees, with greater access to the firm’s leading diversified portfolio strategies.

The Australian exchange-traded product (ETP) sector has entered its third stage of progress as actively managed investment strategies start to come to the fore, with SMSF investors and advisers playing a crucial role in their popularity.

Over the past 12 months there has been a noteworthy demographic shift occurring within the exchange-traded fund (ETF) sector when it comes to SMSF users specifically, an ETF issuer has revealed.

SMSFs looking to trade their exchange-traded funds (ETF) at this time of the year should carefully consider the tax implications for the fund, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

When we launched the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Australian shores nearly 16 years ago, we targeted a local industry that was mostly institutional investors. Since then, we have watched the appeal of ETFs grow and grow.

Diversification is the primary reason for SMSF investors’ use of exchange-traded funds (ETF), a new study has found.

Despite the Australian exchange-traded fund (ETF) sector’s slow start to the year, SMSF investors are on the hunt for unique exposures within traditional asset classes and are also showing a preference for rules-based ETFs, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

For the past few years, SMSFs have embraced the use of exchanged-traded funds (ETF). And while the more traditional index trackers have been adopted more broadly, a second generation of exchange-traded products (ETP) offering more sophisticated investment alternatives, such as managed risk funds and dividend collectors, is quickly gaining momentum with the SMSF sector.