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Van Eck ETFs added to CFS FirstWrap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... markets. The four ETFs now available on FirstWrap are the Market Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF, Market Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality ETF, Marker Vectors Australian Banks ETF and Market Vectors Australian Property ETF. "We are delighted ...

Epoch funds get upgrade from Zenith

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... The aim is to generate superior risk-adjusted returns with a dividend yield that exceeds the dividend yield of the MSCI World (ex Australia) Index. Damien McIntyre, director and head of distribution with Grant Samuel Funds Management, said the funds' ...

Vanguard launches hedged and unhedged intl ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... offer investors exposure to around 1500 companies across 22 markets, excluding Australia. The unhedged VGS tracks the MSCI World ex-Australia (with net dividends reinvested) in Australian dollars Index, and the hedged VGAD tracks the MSCI World ex-Australia ...

Market Vectors launches global quality focused ETF

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... equity exchange-traded fund with a quality bias. Trading under the ASX code QUAL, the ETF is designed to track the MSCI World ex Australia Quality Index. The Market Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality ETF gives investors access to a portfolio of ...

Market Vectors launches international ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... set to launch a new international equities ETF on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The ETF is pegged to the MSCI World ex Australia Quality Index which selects international companies on the basis of three key quality factors: high return on ...

Lonsec returns PM CAPITAL fund to 'Recommended'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Fund has achieved a total return of 209.4% since its inception in October 1998, which compares favourably against the MSCI World Index (Net Dividends Reinvested, AUD) total return of 46.9% (as at 30 November 2013). The Fund has returned 19.4% per annum ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... soared by 16.8%this year to date. This compares with gains of 1.6% and 1.7% for the MSCI Emerging market index and the MSCI World index, respectively. The inflow of funds into the Philippine stock market had, no doubt, been boosted by the upgrade to ...

Magellan Global returned 48.7% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... three- and five-year annual returns of 24.5% and 16.1% respectively. This equates to an outperformance of the fund's MSCI World Net Total Return Index AUD benchmark of 6.7% per annum over the past five years. The half-year report also shows that the ...

"Boring" hedge funds shake gung-ho reputation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... hedge funds the researcher tracks was 21.34% in Australian dollar terms in the 12 months to 31 October 2013, while the MSCI World ex Australia (Net Dividend) Index was up 38.16%. It's a similar story over three years where the average hedge fund has ...

International shares pose barriers to entry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... stocks with global operations. International equities have been one of the top performing asset classes of 2013 with the MSCI World ex Australia (Net Dividend) Index rising 45.04% in Australian dollar terms versus 23.26% from the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation ...