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Australian shares are set to start the week on a positive note after US stocks rallied into the close. The $A is hovering at US75¢ before the RBA’s meeting.

IShares has lowered the expense ratios on several popular funds in a move that makes its already low-cost ETFs even more accessible to investors.

BlackRock reduced the expense ratio on the $85 billion iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) to 0.03% from 0.04%. 

As you make your investing plans for 2021 and beyond, bolstering the value side of your portfolio is worth considering. Value stocks appear to be one of the few underpriced areas of the U.S. equity market, as Morningstar's Dave Sekera and Amy Arnott have recently noted in separate articles. The extreme value-growth spread has been a noted feature of the market for a number of years, for reasons not fully understood, but believers in mean-reversion would expect that pattern to shift at some point, perhaps in an extreme fashion. GMO's Ben Inker, for instance, argued in a recent letter to invest...

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