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Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... of fees (in US dollars). This contrasts with world stocks, which returned a lower 9.4 per cent (based on the MSCI World index) and world bonds, up 5.4 per cent (based on the Citigroup World bond index). The fund's correlation to world stocks and world ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... management (AUM), an increase of 5.7 per cent year-to-date. That outperformed the 3.7 per cent increase in the MSCI World Index over the same period, in US dollar terms, according to the report. But the popularity of ETFs may be coming at the expense ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... Airlines and Avon. The bottom line on the bottomlines? According to Bloomberg, "About 70 percent of companies in the MSCI World Index have reported better-than-projected profit so far in the second-quarter reporting season..." There was also good news ...

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 ...