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Better than bonds: A new approach to lifecycle investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... defensive assets over a 30-year period. The classic lifecycle portfolio kicks off with 40% invested in the S&P/ASX 200, 40% in MSCI ACWI ex Australia and 20% in the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index (AUD). Each year the fund managers pull out 1% from ...

SMSF home bias drags returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... markets all saw large falls with the S&P500 Accumulation Index posting a negative 3.7%, while the FTSE Euro 100 fell 4% and MSCI Japan fell 3.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P/ASX 200 had a positive monthly return of 0.4%, buoyed by industrials which rose 0.6%. ...

Smart beta emerging markets ETF launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... ETF is promising to give Australian investors exposure to 24 emerging markets including China, with returns higher than the MSCI EM Index. VanEck's latest smart beta ETF will track the MSCI Emerging Markets Diversified Multiple-Factor Index (AUD) instead ...

Cooper Investors grows retail presence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Rainmaker data shows. It produced a net return of 20.5% in the 12 months to 28 February, 2018, which is 3.3% above the benchmark MSCI AC World Index. Average annual return for the last five years is 16.1%, the fund manager said in a statement. The hedged ...

BetaShares expands in Queensland

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... appointed Tamas Calderwood as national manager, adviser services. Calderwood will be based in Sydney and joins BetaShares from MSCI, where he was vice president - client coverage. Calderwood previously worked at Morgan Stanley, CIBC, Bloomberg and ANZ. ...

VanEck launches sustainable ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... launch a global equities ETF on the ASX to meet investors' shifting preferences for sustainable options. The VanEck Vectors MSCI International Sustainable Equity ETF, to list under ticker code ESGI, will invest in international companies using in-depth ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... trading week of January as it had done so in 2017. Equity market returns: 1st week of Jan 2017 Full-year 2017 Nasdaq 2.56 28.24 MSCI Emerging 1.83 27.82 Dow 1.02 25.08 S&P 500 1.70 19.42 Nikkei 225 1.78 19.10 MSCI World 1.69 16.14 All Ords 1.57 7.84 ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... Langham in Melbourne, exchange-traded funds (ETF) experts from the likes of BlackRock iShares, State Street Global Advisors, MSCI and VanEck addressed delegates on best practice when it comes to using ETFs in an advice strategy and what the future holds ...

Long-short performance justifies fees: Zenith

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... justifies the cost. Zenith found in the 12 months to September 30, global long-short managers delivered a 2.3% premium above the MSCI World ex-Australia Index. Annualised for the three years to June 30, these managers delivered a higher net-of-fee return ...

Capital Group takes aim at the fund size myth

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... pointed to the 44-year track record of Capital Group's New Perspective (NPF) global strategy, which has outperformed the MSCI ACWI by 3.5% per annum since inception - despite now having about US$71 billion in assets. "NPF's US$71 billion sounds massive ...