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Active managers grapple with EM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... charged were 1.1% per annum. Even if active management fees were not charged, investors were still better off investing in an index fund, Rainmaker said. Fidelity Global Emerging Markets (13.1% p.a.) was the best-performing fund, delivering 7.5 percentage ...

Vanguard launches new ESG offerings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... Conscious funds, which were launched in September 2018." The fund is benchmarked to the custom-built FTSE Australia 300 Choice Index and seeks to track the return of this index before taking into account management fees, expenses and tax. The new products ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... recent years," Wei said. "In fact, it's to be expected in an environment where a handful of outlier stocks have inflated the index, fuelled by investor sentiment and easy monetary policy." The paper said over the past few months the argument against ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... fiscal balances. This isn't lost on investors. China's relatively stronger growth has pushed the Shanghai Composite index up by 10.1% this year to date - outperforming the S&P 500 (9.4%); the Nikkei-225 (-0.4%); the Stoxx-50 (-11.9%); the FTSE-100 ...

Chief economist update: Budget me this Batman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... coronavirus-induced restrictions in Victoria resulted in a slowdown of orders and reduction in new orders. Likewise, the services industry index dropped to 36.2 from 42.5 in August, again due to the re-imposition of restrictions in Melbourne. The AiG ...

Benchmark-lagging LIC faces strategic review

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... the fund returning -3.92% over a 12-month period. In comparison, the LIC's benchmark, the MSCI AC World (net dividends) index, returned -4.28% and 4.08% over the same time periods. Longer term, TGG has consistently underperformed its benchmark, returning ...

Chief economist update: Winter of Europe's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... countries." The impact on the economy has already been captured in the latest IHS Markit Eurozone PMI survey. The composite index dropped back to a three-month low reading of 50.1 in September - the second consecutive month of decline. Manufacturing ...

MySuper funds redeem performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... percentage points. In the month of August however, default retail funds edged out NFP funds according to Rainmaker's index: 2.1% versus 1.7%. The research house named Vision Super as the top-performing MySuper product based on a single strategy. ...

Chief economist update: Morrison manufactures Australia's future

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... Scott's announcement came at the same time as the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance of manufacturing index dropped back to 46.7 points in September, with the indicative contraction deepening from 49.3 in the previous month as " 'Stage ...

Lazard launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... bonds. The fund seeks to achieve total returns in excess of the Thomson Reuters Global Focus Hedged (AUD) Convertible Bond Index (net interest reinvested) over rolling five-year periods. The fund will be managed by Arnaud Brillois and an investment team ...