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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 ...

AMP Capital shutters global equities fund for platform investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... to 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.

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 ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... the belief that infection rates are slowing, Natixis chief market strategist Dave Lafferty said. "Global equities (MSCI World) are up 23% off the bottom as investors put their faith in unprecedented stimulus and the belief that the infection curve is ...

Wall Street surges as Sanders drops out, Wuhan reopens

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... faster than their cyclical peers and some fear that while the fiscal stimulus is large, it's too late." Although the MSCI World Index has recovered 41% of its bear market decline, Sherwood said Australia's market was still struggling to recover. ...

Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... COVID-19 outbreak led to significant losses in equity markets during February, with the S&P 500 Index down 8.2% and the MSCI World Index Ex USA down 8.9%. Cerulli said this trend will likely continue, with the World Health Organisation declaring COVID-19 ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... 11.9% during the COVID-19 sell-off. That's compared to the blows suffered by the Aussie benchmark (-36.5%), the MSCI World benchmark (-33.3%), the S&P 500 (-33.4%), and the Dow (-35.9%). These dramatic falls, accompanied by nausea-inducing swings ...

Best, worst equities performers in COVID-19 sell-off revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... benchmark fell by 15%. This isn't too bad when compared to the blows suffered by the Aussie benchmark (-25.26%), the MSCI World benchmark (-22.42%) and the MSCI US benchmark (-22.59%). Surprisingly, the best performers over the period have been strategies ...

Thematic investing grows threefold

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... to 2015, 69% have survived," Morningstar said. "Of those that have survived, just 41% and 26% have outperformed the MSCI World Index over the trailing five and 10 years, respectively. "Taken together, these figures paint a bleak picture for investors. ...