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No clash between active and passive investment

15 July 2014 | General

Active and passive investment is not an either-or proposition. Sensible investors can usefully combine both options.

LISP platform snag no reason to turn away ETF business – Deutsche

10 July 2014 | General

No financial service professional likes to turn away business, though opportunities are apparently being missed in the exchange traded fund (ETF) space because of technical constraints on some LISP platforms.

Avoiding costly mistakes: a culture of minimising downside risk

08 July 2014 | Equities

It’s clear from the way the European stock market has recently been reacting to events such as the crisis in the Ukraine or recent European Central Bank policy actions, that short-term volatility is often as unpredictable as it is unavoidable. As bottom-up equity investors, these are not things we at Franklin Equity Group can hope to control. When selecting our investments from among the 3,000-stock universe available in Europe, we focus in on the risks that we can foresee by scrutinising what could go wrong in the business model of a company we’re evaluating.

June 2014 – etfSA.co.za monthly South African ETF, ETN and unit trust passive index tracking performance survey

03 July 2014 | ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds)

The latest Performance survey highlights the continued good performance of market capitalisation equity indices that track both domestic and foreign equity markets.

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The strongest deterrent against FSP compliance missteps is or should be:

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