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...State Street Global Advisors’ SPDR S&P 500 Ucits ETF has attracted €2.7bn in net inflows over the three months since its fee was cut to 0.03 per cent in November last year....
...“When iShares competes directly with Vanguard on cost, like S&P 500 or total stock market ETFs, investors still reach for Vanguard’s ETF because those cheap, broad-market index funds are what [Vanguard is...
...Nevertheless, “investors are skittish on what came out of China”, said Dave Wagner at Aptus Capital Advisors....
...QUAL returned 30.9 per cent last year, beating the S&P 500 by 4.6 percentage points....
...Take a look at this: Strictly speaking, the Fidelity 500 Index Fund is not an ETF like State Street Global Advisors’ SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (or BlackRock’s iShares Core S&P 500 ETF or Vanguard’s S&P 500...
...But MSCI’s correlation with both S&P and Sustainalytics is below 50%. The S&P and Sustainalytics correlation is higher but still lower than expected . . ....
...BlackRock funds own 3.6 per cent and State Street Global Advisors controls another 3.13 per cent. That adds up to 13.58 per cent....
...It recorded a 3.5 per cent loss in 2022, while the while the S&P 500 was down 18 per cent....
...The S&P 500 fell a bit yesterday, but growth was unbothered. Google even staged a nice little rally, after Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb disclosed fresh investments....
...Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF logged the industry’s second-best flows, at $3.6bn, behind State Street Global Advisors’ Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF’s $3.8bn....
...S&P Global’s US composite purchasing managers’ index was the trigger for the sell-off....
...Berkshire, which is the largest component in the S&P 500 value index, has fallen 6 per cent in 2022, far outperforming the 17 per cent decline in the benchmark S&P 500....
...and Invesco, before jumping ship to benchmarking giant S&P....
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
...According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, BlackRock is the bank’s second-largest shareholder with a stake of more than 7 per cent....
...We asked Benn Eifert, who runs QVR Advisors, a volatility and derivative hedge fund, about what equity derivative markets are telling us about the cash equities market....
...The fund company has outperformed the S&P 500 but underperformed the Nasdaq Composite over the same period, which is up about 200 per cent....
...That compares with $138bn a day for Amazon, the second most active single-stock option market, and $112bn a day for the rest of the S&P 500 index combined....
...“It stands out like a sore thumb,” says Dean Curnutt, the chief executive of Macro Risk Advisors. “It’s something you’ve got to pay a lot of attention to.”...
...But that all changed on Thursday when T Rowe unveiled the acquisition of New York-based Oak Hill Advisors for up to $4.2bn in cash and shares....
...Passive ETFs, which simply track indices such as the S&P 500, dominate the market....
...The potential for a squeeze in corporate profitability is starting to loom larger for the investors and analysts who track USA Inc. It’s not hard to see why....
...This month, BlackRock bought a minority stake in SpiderRock Advisors, an options service for SMAs....
...Some asset managers said they expected this year to be a record for failed pay votes at S&P 500 companies....
...ETF assets managed by State Street Global Advisors passed the $1tn mark in April....
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