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US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... benchmark's 9.47%. The benchmark is blended index 25% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 75% MSCI World Index. It's shares component has a lower standard deviation (volatility) than the MSCI World Index but a lower sharpe ratio ...

Colonial First State launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... Distributions are half yearly. Performance of the Baillie Gifford's Global Stewardship UK composite was 5.7% p.a. over the benchmark (MSCI All Country World Index benchmark) from December, 2015 inception to June end. CFS and Gifford have a partnership ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... economy in the world (since 2010 when it overtook Japan); the 'A' shares in its stock market is now included in the MSCI indexes; and the Chinese yuan officially became a world currency on 1 October 2016 - making it the third reserve currency ...

Research Affiliates strengthens Australian presence

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... Fundamental Indexing (RAFI) strategies in the London market. Previously, he served as executive director, head of sales at MSCI, based in London. He has also worked as relationship manager at Citigroup and at Suncorp. In his new role, Willis is responsible ...

Best and worst performing global shares funds revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... funds made a positive return," Morningstar senior analyst, manager research Andrew Miles said. "But the benchmark [MSCI World] was up 17% to June end and so, relative to that investors have lost out by investing in these funds when they could have had ...

Pengana adds fee class for global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... to invest in the strategy with a lower management fee of 0.65% with a 15% performance fee for returns above the benchmark MSCI All Country World Index. The fund has underperformed the MSCI All Country World Index in AUD by 0.38% in since inception in ...

Cooper Investors launches equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... 6.1%. Volatility and downside capture were roughly 88% and 62% respectively of the reference index. The manager uses the MSCI All World net dividends in local currency as the reference index to measure the volatility and the downside capture but the ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... equities, one emerging markets specialist argues investing in the country goes beyond index inclusion. The landmark move by MSCI last year opened the floodgates to the once-difficult-to-access Chinese equity market. In May 2019, it increased the inclusion ...

MSCI adds former Aberdeen Standard distribution lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
The former head of distribution for Aberdeen Standard Investments has taken on a leadership role with MSCI. Simone Bouch is now head of Australia and New Zealand client coverage at the research and technology provider. She will be responsible for growing ...

Legg Mason launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... Investment Fund will embed positive ESG analysis alongside certain ethical restrictions. The fund aims to outperform the MSCI World ESG Leaders Index and to tap into the experience and expertise of Legg Mason's wholly-owned affiliate, QS Investors. QS ...

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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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