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Australian equities funds downgraded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... did BlackRock Concentrated Industrial, Perpetual Wholesale Industrial, Russell High Dividend Australian Shares ETF and SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield ETF. NovaPort Smaller Companies dropped to neutral from silver with Morningstar putting ...

Vanguard finds dirty assets in ESG fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... Aggregate Bond Index invests in about 4500 fixed income instruments and is based on a joint benchmark from Bloomberg Barclays and MSCI. MSCI filters the holdings for ties to fossil fuels, nuclear power, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, weapons and adult entertainment ...

Asset managers move to ESG

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... boosted their environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows. MSCI's 2021 Global Institutional Investor Survey showed the pandemic sparked 79% of APAC investors to increase their exposure ...

Fund manager expands, hires two executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... the public markets. The flagship Holon Photon Fund achieved a 44.4% per annum in the one year to January 2021, beating the MSCI ACWI Index's 2.1% p.a. The fund currently invests in companies that operate in payments, entertainment, cloud computing ...

New global equities ETF to launch

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... p.a. over three years and 13.2% p.a. over five years, as at December end. This is 5.3% and 3.2% higher respectively than the MSCI ACWI ex Australia in AUD. Its biggest sector weights are to IT, healthcare and consumer staples. The ETFs fees are set at ...

GQG sees spectacular FUM growth

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... investment officer Rajiv Jain and holds about 45 securities, returned 9.27% last year compared to the 6.15% from the benchmark MSCI ACWI ex tobacco.

Big year for ESG ahead: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The move towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations dominated MSCI's Investment Insights 2021 survey. Around 200 executives at different asset owners were surveyed by phone late last year, representing sovereign wealth funds ...

Hyperion makes foray into active ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... fee structure as the unlisted fund which is 0.70% per annum management fee and a 20% performance fee above the benchmark (MSCI World Accumulation Index). Lead managers Mark Arnold and Jason Orthman said the firm decided to launch an active ETF due to ...

Zenith partners with MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
Zenith Investment Partners has partnered with MSCI to enhance the delivery of institutional-grade portfolio analysis, service scalability, insights and reporting to its managed account portfolio clients. Zenith said it will roll out the MSCI BarraOne ...

Vanguard growth ETFs shine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... rolled out in the hope that they can normalise global economies. In the same month, the S&P/ASX200 returned 10.2% and the MSCI All Countries Index registered 7.5%. The S&P500 returned 17.5%. In the global equities sector, Loftus Peak Global disruption ...