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Aurora wins $190m Optimix mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... exploits market inefficiencies around the announcement of earnings results, while maintaining broad exposure to the MSCI World Index. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer at ING Investment Management, said that the strategy has now been included ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... In the year to date, Bennelong SGI Global Equities returned more than 5 per cent, beating its benchmark, the MSCI World index, by at least 100 basis points. The fund is distributed locally by Bennelong Funds Management. The underlying manager SGI, or ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... that Epoch invested in raised their dividends. While the average dividend yield of the fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index, returned 2.5 per cent, the Grant Samuel Epoch Global Equity Shareholder Yield averaged a much higher 4.6 per cent. That said ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... any one thing that will cause it to go down," he said. His strategy is simple. Beat the fund's benchmark, the MSCI world index, by at least 300 basis points (three per cent) each year by investing in around 100 high-quality growth stocks. Using a sports ...

Canadian pensions stage Q3 recovery

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... September. While Canada's pension funds have recovered somewhat, the strong domestic dollar had impacted returns. The MSCI World index jumped 20 per cent in local currency (US) terms but pension plans only rose by just over 10 per cent when converted ...

Russell launches global infra fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... S&P Global Listed Infrastructure (GLI) Index sunk 31.59 per cent in the year to June, slightly worse than the MSCI World Index, which lost 29 per cent over the same period. But stretch to five years and global listed infrastructure investors have done ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... fund index, domiciled in US dollars, returned 3.5 per cent in April while the S&P 500 posted 9.6 per cent and MSCI World Index returned almost 11 per cent. The Greenwich Global Long/Short index fared better during the month with a 5.7 per cent return ...

Global infra funds fall short

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... the worst performing periods in the asset class's history. However, the index was 5 per cent better than the MSCI World Index which lost over 37 per cent during the same period. "The result was disappointing given that we had expected the sector to have ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... per cent in the past 12 months, in contrast to a fall of almost four times that amount or 42.1 per cent in the MSCI World Index," highlighted Seccombe. Based on data collated by Thomson Reuters, both institutional investors and advisers have increased ...

Aviva pushes PRI cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... fund. Aviva Investors annual general meeting (AGM) voting practices will now extend to all global holdings on the MSCI World Index. The firm is also including the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) in its contracts with other ...