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Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
Major international equity markets have had a rough ride in 2010 but most generally ended with positive performances. International equities, as measured by the MSCI World Index (in local currency terms), produced a 7.8 per cent gain in 2010. A summer ...

Asset Super awards mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... of the investments into the Schroders and DFA pooled trusts. Asset has also reduced its hedging ratio on international equity portfolios from 40 per cent to 35 per cent based on the current exchange levels of the Australian dollar relative to the US ...

FuturePlus seeks more alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... volatility so it's a little bit more conservative. "And global real estate, even though it's technically a listed international equity and sits in the sector, it's [technically] real property," he said. Block pointed out EISS, for instance, is heavily ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
International equity markets' reaction to the weekend's G-20 gabfest was to be expected. They were up a little. They were down a little. Like I wrote on this space yesterday, there was something for everyone - depending on which paragraph of the G-20 ...

Australian dollar separates winners and losers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... in just the past three weeks. Murray Brewer, Australian head at T.Rowe Price, said investors in un-hedged international equity funds are being rewarded. "If you're an un-hedged investor, for once in a long time you'll be really happy with this. The value ...

BlackRock portfolio managers resign

S&P RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... equities. S&P placed the following funds on hold: the BlackRock Scientific Australian Equity; Scientific International Equity; Indexed Australian Equity; Indexed Hedged International Equity; BlackRock Indexed International Equity; Indexed Australian ...

LUCRF Super appoints global eq managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... has appointed Arrowstreet Capital LP, MFS Investment Management and DFA Australia (Dimensional) as its new international equity managers. The appointments follow the fund's international equity review, which is part of an overall examination of all the ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... management to prepare those financials. The measurement was implemented into the fund manager's active global and international equity strategy. "From a returns perspective, Acadian believes that fundamentally well governed, sustainable businesses generate ...

RaboPlus adds Russell funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
RaboPlus has added eight Australian and international equity funds from Russell Investment Management to its platform. This means the Russell's Balanced fund; Diversified 50 fund; International Shares fund and High Growth fund are available through ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... of Janus' key institutional strategies to the top decile in the past five years. For example, the group's International Equity strategy gained 52.6 per cent versus its benchmark's 32.5 per cent; the Global Research Growth Equity gained 45.8 per cent ...