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Active funds continue underperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
S&P Dow Jones Indices SPIVA Australia Scorecard has revealed just over half of Australian equities funds beat their benchmarks last year, with active funds underperforming. Last year, just over half of Australian funds in the Equity General and Equity ...

Australia bucks concentration trend

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... (HHI). This index is a widely used measure of market concentration that can also be applied to stock market indices," S&P Dow Jones Indices senior analyst Eduardo Olazabal explained. "It is calculated by squaring the market share (weight) of each stock ...

SSGA creates regional ESG role

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... funds under management. Most recently, it introduced changes to its SPDR ETF products. From February 2022, the SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate Fund (DJRE), the SPDR S&P World ex Australia Fund (WXOZ), the SPDR S&P World ex Australia Fund (Hedged) (WXHG) ...

Majority of Aussie fund categories underperform: Data

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
S&P Dow Jones Indices Australia has today released its Persistence Scorecard Mid-Year 2021, revealing that the majority of Australian fund categories overall showed weak performance persistence in top-performing funds across three- and five-year periods. ...

ESG overhaul for SSGA ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
... global real estate ETF and reduced carbon emissions emerging markets ETF for the first time. From February 2022, the SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate Fund (DJRE), the SPDR S&P World ex Australia Fund (WXOZ), the SPDR S&P World ex Australia Fund (Hedged) ...

Crypto mining ETF launches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... generate 80% of their revenue from digital asset mining and infrastructure. The index is maintained and rebalanced by S&P Dow Jones Indices and will have exposure to Marathon Digital, Riot Blockchain, Hive Blockchain Technologies and Hut 8 Mining Corp. ...

News Corp grows Dow Jones with acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
News Corp is expanding Dow Jones by entering into an agreement to acquire the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) from S&P Global and IHS Markit. OPIS will fold into Dow Jones' Professional Information Business (PIB) which includes Dow Jones Risk & ...

S&P launches new ESG tilted NZ index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
S&P Dow Jones Indices has introduced a new NZX 50 portfolio ESG tilted index. The rules-based index uses relevant ESG principles to select and weight constituents from the S&P/NZX 50 Portfolio Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the ...

Morningstar introduces new platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... foreign-exchange markets, options, preferred stocks, indexes, commodities and fixed income. Users have access to news feeds from Dow Jones Newswires, including select content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch. Morningstar head ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
Pandemic? What pandemic? The S&P500 index the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 2020 at record highs despite the US topping the list of countries with most total cases of coronavirus infections (21.3 million or roughly 25% of the world's total) ...