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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 ...

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 ...