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The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... notice, despite warnings upon warnings that doomsday is nigh, equity markets are slowly crawling on the up and up. The MSCI World Index has risen by 8.4% year-to-date and is 10.1% above this year's low. The S&P 500 is up 11.5% and 9.7%, respectively. ...

Five Oceans wins global equities mandate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... Skandia Global Equity Fund will be managed in a similar manner to the Five Oceans World Fund, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index by over 5% annualised after fees, since inception in 2006, as well as in each calendar year," said Youngman. Five ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... unchanged in 2010, growth picked up by 2.9%. And what did equity markets do with these grim forecasts back then? The MSCI World Index soared by 22.8% in 2009 and added another 7.8% the following year. Again, go figure.

On the verge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... in developed world stock markets by the end of 2010. It was 29 January 2010 when it made the call. Guess what? The MSCI World Index finished the year 12% higher with the S&P 500 closing 17.1% up. But in fairness to MS, markets were not left to their ...

Fund managers beat the index but only just

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... found the median fund return in the overseas share survey was -5.3% in the three months to the end of July, while the MSCI World ex-Australia Index was -5.6% in the same period. Over 1 year, the median return of -1.4% beat the -2.4% index by 1%, while ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... fuzz not the other four-letter word, I'm not allowed to write that.) Because of the debt negotiations "stalemate", the MSCI World Index fell by 0.6% last night. Due to the "deadlock", the MSCI Emerging Markets Index retreated by 0.4%. The "impasse" caused ...

LG Super awards $150m global equity mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... said its global equity strategies have over five year track records, with the Five Oceans World Fund outperforming the MSCI World index by over 6% annualised since inception after fees.

Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... shareholder yield strategy has delivered a net return of 5.4 per cent against the 2.4 per cent posted by the benchmark MSCI World Equity Index, over the last five years. "The Global Equity Shareholder Yield has been popular since the GFC, no question. ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... chosen to fill the 260 highest conviction positions across the 26 portfolios. There are 1500 possible choices in the MSCI World Index. Favourite stocks included Roche, which appeared in seven portfolios, tobacco maker Phillip Morris International, Nestle ...

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... was outstanding compared with global equities fund managers. Global equities outperformed the domestic index with the MSCI World ex-Australia Index rising 3.89 per cent over the first quarter - but global fund managers were unable to outpace it. Only ...