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Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... MSCI Emerging Market (Net Dividend) Index has returned just 16.66% in Australian dollar terms versus 37.72% from the MSCI World (Net Dividend) Index. However, AllianceBernstein's Emerging Markets Multi-Asset team head Harting argued that investors fleeing ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... the top-performing fund in its sector with returns of 15.1% over the five years to 31 August 2013. By comparison, the MSCI World ex Australia benchmark has returned 3.37% over the period and the peer group average return is just 3.79%. Cairns recently ...

Platinum reports stellar result

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... (ASX). The strong performance contributed to the group's fiver-year performance figures of 10.4% versus 3.3% from the MSCI World Index and brings the investment company's annualised pre-tax return since its 1994 inception to 12.6% compared to 5.2% from ...

PM Capital boosted by beer and Las Vegas property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... 77.8% return over the 12 months to 31 July. The figure dwarfs the 44.5% return achieved by the fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index. The firm's latest success story has been a direct play on the US housing recovery. On discovering three-bedroom houses ...

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... energy stocks, with limited additional tracking error and improved returns." Excluding the fossil energy stocks from the MSCI World Index over the last seven years (to the end of April 2013) would have boosted portfolios by 0.5% annually with only a ...

Environmental trends a boost for Impax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... analyst coverage; there are just five analysts per stock in Impax's investment universe compared to 18 per stock in the MSCI World index. This means markets are less well understood and therefore the opportunities for finding price anomalies is incre ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... It returned 1.47% p.a. pre-fees over three years to 30 April 2013 (ranked 125/147 - bottom quartile), far below the MSCI World ex-Australia (net dividend, in AUD) gain of 5.62% over the same period. Neilson said the fund suffered partly due to its domestic ...

Top-down approach wins in post-GFC world: Hexavest

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... year of the financial crisis, Hexavest's combined strategies were down just 7.9% compared to a loss of 25.3% from its MSCI World Net Index benchmark. The investment team has been managing money since 1999 and out of 61 down market periods since then ...

Zenith rates Macquarie global fund as 'Recommended'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... Macquarie Professional Series received a 'Recommended' rating from Zenith. The fund aims to reduce the volatility of the MSCI World index, while meeting or exceeding the return of the index. The fund, which began managing low volatility portfolios in ...

CFSGAM appoints CIO, infra analyst

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... since its inception in June 2007 and it has outperformed its benchmark by cumulative 21%. It has also surpassed the MSCI World Index by 28%. Kohen was previously associate director of Access Capital Advisers, a specialist infrastructure management fi ...