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CFSGAM bullish on listed infrastructure

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... since its inception in 2007, outperformed its benchmark by 20% over the five years to 30 June 2012, and surpassed the MSCI World Index by 31% over the same period. Peter Meany, head of global listed infrastructure at CFSGAM said that with interest rates ...

Vanguard to publish portfolio holdings

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... and ensure they have the information they need to make well informed investment decisions". Of the 22 nations on the MSCI World Index surveyed in a 2011 Morningstar Global Investors Report, Australia and New Zealand were the only two countries that do ...

Marathon assets under review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Hosking, who heads Marathon's global business, sets allocations for the global equity strategy, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index over three, five and 10 years to 2011. He also manages the Pacific-Basin equity fund with co-founder William Arah ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... while all these talks about "the coming" policy stimulus measures appear to be keeping equity markets afloat - the MSCI World Index is up 8.2% this year to date and the MSCI Emerging Market Index has gained 4.3% -- something tells me markets are not ...

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 ...