At the recent Australian Indexing & ETF Masterclass series held in Melbourne & Sydney, we asked the audience, 83% of whom were Financial Advisers, a number of questions using a mobile-enabled polling tool. Over 260 people attended the Masterclass across the two cities, and 189 of these people used the polling tool. 767 discrete votes Read more […]
Over the past few months, there has been a flurry of activity in the financial advisor segment of Australia. In mid-September 2018, S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) hosted an exchange-traded fund (ETF) seminar in Perth, Western Australia. This was S&P DJI’s second foray in the West, and with Perth being one of the world’s Read more […]
We all know we should work on and improve our core, but how many of us have the discipline to do it? I interviewed two financial advisors who are strengthening their core by using municipal bond indices and the ETFs that track them. Matt Papazian is founding partner and CIO at Cardan Capital Partners of Read more […]
In anticipation of S&P Dow Jones Indices’ ETF Masterclass for Canadian Advisors on June 23, 2016: A Bright Future for Financial Advisory, it helps to revisit some of the company’s involvement in the country. Our firm has always been committed to Canada, with an office on King Street West, and the company has always shown Read more […]
Financial advisors who implement style investing seek to outperform the blended benchmark whenever they believe that market conditions will favor either a growth or a value approach. Their view could be influenced by research, fundamental factors, or technicals. To implement such a view does not require 100% conviction in either growth or value. In fact, Read more […]
I am excited about our Miami Financial Advisor Forum, “Where Can Smart Beta Take You?” This educational event will occur at the Epic Hotel in Miami on Feb. 24, 2016. For the first time, we will livestream this financial advisor forum. We hope that by broadening access to this event, more of you will find Read more […]
Advisors today share a problem new to the careers of all but the eldest of us. As I discussed in a recent webinar, at Giralda Advisors, we call it the Portfolio Problem — unique in the last 30 years and arguably the most significant issue facing financial planning professionals over the next several years, if Read more […]
My last post summarized some of our notes from the recent S&P DJI ETF Masterclass conference in Toronto, on the topic “ETFs as a Catalyst for Canadian Advisory Growth”. We discussed some disruptive innovations that are changing the fabric of wealth management, and how some of Canada’s leading wealth management thought leaders propose to address them. This post will continue Read more […]
On June 24, 2015 S&P Dow Jones Indices hosted an ETF Masterclass in Canada: ETFs as a Catalyst for Canadian Advisory Growth. In advance, we believed that what would be top-of-mind for advisors was the use of ETFs for global diversification. Our panels were also prepared to address proactively positioning their firm for regulatory change, Read more […]
I recently moderated a global webinar for financial advisors on the topic of S&P DJI research on passive versus active investing. Presenters on the webinar included Aye Soe, our Head of Global Research & Design, Rick Ferri, Founder and Managing Partner of Portfolio Solutions, and Antoine Lesne, Head of ETF Sales Strategy in EMEA for Read more […]
