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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... September quarter 2016 were as follows: the S&P/ASX 200 increased 3.9%; the price of foreign shares, as represented by the MSCI World Index excluding Australia, increased 4.3%; and the A$ appreciated 2.7% against the US$." Compared with the previous ...

SSGA expands responsible investment strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... International Equities Index Trust Ex Tobacco Ex Controversial Weapons Fund intends to track the performance of the MSCI World ex Australia ex Tobacco ex Controversial Weapons Index. Medibank Private has provided a $170 million seed investment for the ...

VanEck ETFs receive Zenith rating

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... received a 'Recommended' rating from Zenith. The VanEck Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF and the VanEck Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality ETF were awarded the rating in what VanEck Australia managing director Arian Neiron described as "a testament ...

BlackRock launches smart beta ETF suite

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... iShares Edge Smart Beta products comprise the iShares Edge MSCI Australia Minimum Volatility ETF, the iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ETF, iShares Edge MSCI Australia Multifactor ETF and the iShares Edge MSCI World Multifactor ETF. Speaking ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... the Watershed International ETF SMA delivered 6.86% p.a. gross return for its investors, outpacing its benchmark the MSCI World Index (AUD) which lost 2.48%, giving outperformance of 9.34%. In its July monthly report, the group's international separately ...

LIC helped by high gold and cash exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... company Hunter Hall Global Value delivered an investment portfolio return of 12.3% last financial year, outperforming MSCI World by 11.9%. The LIC also produced an after tax profit of $30.5 million. Hunter Hall Global Value chairman Paul Jensen said ...

Maple-Brown Abbott fund gets ratings tick

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... period the fund has exhibited less volatility (10.6%) than broader equity markets such as the S&P 500 (13%) and the MSCI World (12.6%). The strategy has more than $1 billion of assets under management across both hedged and unhedged options, with both ...

Antipodes to launch global equities LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... researcher's Australian Institutional Sector Survey for the year to 30 June 2016. It delivered an 8.4% return compared to the MSCI World ex-Australia Net Return AUD Index, which returned 0.4%. At the time, Antipodes managing director and chief investment ...

Concerns about EM unwarranted: William Blair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Emerging Markets Index are now only at 13%, down from 38% at the peak of the commodity boom and almost on par with the MSCI World Index," McClone said. He said it is true the correlation between commodity prices and emerging market equity prices significantly ...

iShares Core launches in Australia

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... entire portfolios and provide global multi-asset class exposure. They include the two newly launched exposures to the MSCI World Investment Market Index, which captures large, mid and small cap companies across 23 developed market countries. The new ...