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State Street fund purges tobacco, weapons

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
State Street's international equities trust, which tracks MSCI World ex Australia, is set to exclude tobacco and controversial weapons. It will make the changes from July 1, for both the hedged and unhedged versions of the State Street International ...

Regal Atlantic fund perks up in April

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... benefited from its healthcare stock picks and April's recovery in stocks, as S&P 500 Index returned rose 12.7% and MSCI World rose 10.8%. Contributors to the fund's performance included regenerative medicine company Mesoblast which rose 143% in April ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... investment strategy Matt Sherwood said the poor data had resulted in heavy losses around the world overnight. "The MSCI World Index declined by -0.9% overnight with losses in all Northern Hemisphere markets and all sectors," he said. "Among the latter ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... said. "If the bid/offer spread on any index widens, that of an ETF based on it will react," Chugh explained. "Say it's the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, and the spread surges from 30 basis points (0.3%) to 90 basis points (0.9%), you would expect a tripling ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
ESG performance has been positive across global markets since the outbreak of COVID-19, according to MSCI. Although the current conditions have only existed for a few months, MSCI said it observed a positive performance contribution from ESG across ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... equities, BetaShares US Equities Strong Bear Fund was ranked first for flows, followed by iShares Core S&P 500 and Vanguard MSCI Index International. iShares S&P ASX 200 was ranked last for flows with a FUM change of minus $494 million. The Morningstar ...

Best, worst global equities funds in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... quarter, while the local S&P/ASX Small Ords Total Return fell 26.72%, global stock market indices were down between 6.26% (MSCI AC Asia Ex Japan NR AUD) and 13.09% (MSCI Europe NR AUD). Consequently, all global equities funds analysed posted negative ...

AMP Capital shutters global equities fund for platform investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... information technology and healthcare stocks. Recent performance for the platform class has been better than the MSCI World Index (Net Dividends Reinvested) in Australian dollar terms.

Aberdeen Standard global equities funds downgraded

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... positions the fund has initiated or topped-up in US growth stocks. "...the portfolio's trailing P/E of 22.7 sat well above the MSCI All Country World ex Australia Index's 17.3 as of February 2020; it was also higher than the portfolio's 18.0 measure ...

How wealth management must respond to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... effects on the markets. However, COVID-19 may mark the end of an extended bull run since 2009," McKinsey said. The MSCI World Index has dropped approximately 30% from peak value in less than a month. For comparison, the tech wreck of 2001 saw a 44% drop ...

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Australian Retirement Trust people chief to depart

ELIZABETH FRY
Australian Retirement Trust has confirmed the departure of chief people officer Helen Jackson, who will leave at the end of the financial year.

SSGA loses $2.4bn in two months

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State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) suffered $2.4 billion in net outflows over the last two months of 2023, the majority of which hit its Australian and international equities products.

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The financial complaints authority is asking the industry for feedback on how it approaches issues and reaches decisions.

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