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Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... 3.1% on the day the results were broadcast around the world with the S&P/ASX 100 index losing 3.3% and the Small Ordinaries index down by 2.0%. This is understandable given the general sense of uncertainty that Britain's eventual departure from the EU ...

Small caps beating blue chips: Lonsec

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... according to Lonsec research. As Lonsec's Australian Equities Smaller Company Sector Review noted, the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index returned 10.2% in 2015, compared to the 2.6% return of the ASX 200. "Finally, after a series of negative returns, Australian ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... management is Australian Small-Cap Equities where only around 8% of active funds underperformed the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index over one and three years and 17% underperformed over five years. S&P Dow Jones Indices attributed the outperformance of ...

Super funds shouldn't abandon small-cap active managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... Australia's challenged resources and mining companies, which comprises a significant chunk of the index. "In the Small Ordinaries Index, over half the mining companies are in the exploration or set up phase and are yet to be profitable and the remainder ...

RBA says its ok

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... caps, with the ASX Top 100 index advancing by 11.8% in the January to October 2012 period while the ASX Small Ordinaries index managed only a 2.8% lift. Nevertheless, October's sectoral performance is encouraging with all of the S&P/ASX 200 GICS (global ...

van Eyk awards small cap managers' highest rating

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... analyst on the review Varun Venkatraman said all the strategies reviewed had outperformed both the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries index and the S&P/ASX200 over a 1-5 year time frame. "It's a highly competitive peer group, much more so than the large cap sector" ...

IOOF awards OC $50m mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... managers," added Farmer. The OC Premium Wholesale Equity Strategy has returned 4.4% versus the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index -14.6% over the one year period and 20.2% p.a. versus the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index of 3.9% p.a. over a three year period ...

Sigma wins $100m super fund mandate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... million. The mandate aims to capitalise on Sigma's small companies' strategy which outperformed the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index by 13.9% over the 12 months to 31 March 2012. The new mandate adds to Sigma's existing funds across a range of large-cap ...

Avoca patient on industrials evolution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... typically hold 30-70 stocks outside of the top 50 companies listed on the ASX, generally within the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index.

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... report said. Morningstar said small-cap managers were able to outperform a falling market. The S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index fell by 1.19 per cent in the first quarter this year but out of 41 strategies only four posted a loss, with two of those still ...