by David Case | Mar 31, 2023 | Financial, Insights
WHEN OUTPERFORMANCE IS THE EXCEPTION AND NOT THE NORM March is the month where passive investment managers normally walk around with a smile on their face and a spring in their step. The reason for their merry moods is the release of the year end SPIVA Scorecards...
by David Case | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES I was sitting in a presentation last week by a well-known South African asset manager and a lot of the light hearted comments revolved around the recently launched ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a chatbot which...
by David Case | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
PASSIVE PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE BEAR MARKET It is commonly accepted knowledge around the world that we have seen a sustained period of outperformance by passive investment solutions when compared to their active management counterparts. In the latest SPIVA scorecard...
by David Case | Jul 29, 2022 | Financial, Insights
One of our non-negotiables when assessing an ETF is liquidity. This is a cornerstone of our selection process and is mentioned in all our marketing material and our presentations. In this Insights article we will look at why liquidity matters and then how ETFs...
by David Case | Jul 1, 2022 | Financial
Insights EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS – THE JUNE 2022 UPDATE In our first face to face presentation of the year we looked at the current situation within the ETF universe and demonstrated the huge flows that are going into this low cost structure. We provide...
by David Case | Apr 22, 2022 | Financial, Insights
SEPARATING THE INDEX FROM THE ETF Like almost everything in these modern times the financial industry is awash with acronyms. The shortening of titles to just a few capital letters can get very confusing and often results in the reader lumping everything together in...
by David Case | Feb 25, 2022 | Financial, Insights
THE CHALLENGE OF CHOICE As every global investor will be able to tell you there is a very vast investment universe out there. There are numerous industries and numerous geographies that offer viable investments for the savvy investor to sift through. With such a wide...
by David Case | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
This past year has all been about records for the ETF industry. The exponential growth trajectory of the industry continued, as investors moved to using ETFs as their default investment structure. A lot has been written in the press about the success of the ETF...
by David Case | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Have you ever sat in traffic looking at the lane next to you with envy, convinced that they are the only ones making progress? After a few moments of consideration, you make the decision to switch lanes, only to find the lane that you just exited suddenly moves ahead...
by David Case | Nov 15, 2021 | Financial, Insights
One of the often-repeated benefits of investing via ETFs is that the costs are a lot lower. In their most recently released annual study on fees, Morningstar found that the average expense ratio paid by investors is half of what it was two decades ago. At the end of...
