Vanguard

Investment management firm and US ETF provider Vanguard is hoping to debut a range of ETFs in Europe this year.

Modest investors who may be priced out of holistic financial advice post-2012 will need less of it anyway as they become auto-enroled into pension schemes, investment manager Vanguard says.

ETFs in the US had inflows of around $25.4bn in September with funds tracking US stocks gathering the most assets, according to Morningstar.

Vanguard Investments Australia has launched an ETF offering exposure to the domestic listed property market, with the aim of capturing market returns before costs and tax.

Vanguard is planning to boost its index-tracker range in the US, with the launch of 19 new index funds and ETF shares.

Peter Sleep, portfolio manager of the £375m Asset Allocated Passive (AAP) funds at Seven Investment Management, talks to Nick Sudbury about gaining low cost exposure to global markets

Increasingly banks and asset managers are competing for a slice of the ETF pie - and are expanding across a diversity of geographical regions. Vanguard, the third largest provider of ETFs in the US according to BlackRock, plans on launching its inaugural...

Nick Blake, head of retail sales at Vanguard Investments, gives an overview of the different asset allocation solutions available to advisers.

Vanguard plans on launching its inaugural range of ETFs for the UK market this year, offering low-cost funds with minimal tracking error.

Standard Life has added Vanguard funds to its wrap proposition as investor appetite for passive investment solutions continues to rise.