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Business Description: SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Fund (STW) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that offers index exposure to the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index. The responsible entity of STW for the fund is State Street Global Advisors, Australia Services Limited (SSgA).
Strategy Analysis: The Fund employs a passive investment strategy, investing in securities comprising the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index in proportion to their relative weightings. The Fund may hold derivative contracts (such as forwards, futures, options and swaps over securities in the Index) if the investment manager believes that the Fund's investment objective can be better achieved by doing so. Derivatives will only be used for trading purposes (such as hedging to protect an asset in the Fund against fluctuation or as a substitution for trading physical securities), and not for the purpose of gearing the Fund..
The Age 26/05/2012 | I WAS reading some old Marcus Today newsletters. From 2003. Let me take you back and allow you to exercise the power of hindsight:
The Age 25/05/2012 | RADIO People are six times more likely to go to an advertiser's website if they have heard the ad on radio, according to research by Colmar Brunton, released by Commercial Radio Australia. The research showed that radio advertising has an immediate effect on people's digital activity, with more than three-quarters of those exposed to advertising visiting a website or Facebook page or searching for the brand online within 24 hours. Commercial Radio Australia chief executive Joan Warner said the ...