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Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... closed 10.1 per cent lower last week. But international equities' performance as whole bears no sense of panic. The MSCI World Equities Index closed the week of high volatility only 2.6 per cent lighter while you would hardly notice that something near-apocalyptic ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... starting to outperform those in the fast-growing BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index - the benchmark measure for developed equity markets' performance - have risen by 6.1 per cent this year compared with ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... rough ride in 2010 but most generally ended with positive performances. International equities, as measured by the MSCI World Index (in local currency terms), produced a 7.8 per cent gain in 2010. A summer lull in the United States and renewed concerns ...

Ausbil Dexia signs ESG deal with CAER

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... construction process. According to Rainmaker Information, the $90 million fund slightly outperformed its benchmark, the MSCI World Index, in the year to 30 June, with a 5.5 per cent return. Adam Dixon, associate director of equities at Ausbil Dexia told ...

Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... the world's top 2000 companies are located in Asia ex-Japan and yet it only accounts for less than 7 per cent of the MSCI World Index. Despite China's "spectacular" growth, Urquhart does not expect global financial markets to take their lead from the ...

AQR wins $330m-plus insto mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... Fund is an Australian registered unit trust available for investment to institutions only. The fund seeks to beat the MSCI World ex Australian Index, while controlling its active risk relative to the benchmark. "We aim to achieve a few per cent above ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... cent, net of fees (in US dollars). This contrasts with world stocks, which returned a lower 9.4 per cent (based on the MSCI World index) and world bonds, up 5.4 per cent (based on the Citigroup World bond index). The fund's correlation to world stocks ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... under management (AUM), an increase of 5.7 per cent year-to-date. That outperformed the 3.7 per cent increase in the MSCI World Index over the same period, in US dollar terms, according to the report. But the popularity of ETFs may be coming at the expense ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... Airlines and Avon. The bottom line on the bottomlines? According to Bloomberg, "About 70 percent of companies in the MSCI World Index have reported better-than-projected profit so far in the second-quarter reporting season..." There was also good news ...

Aubrey opens local fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... UK fund, which has a three-year track record and returned more than 33 per cent in the year to June compared to the MSCI World Accumulation Index return of 21 per cent. Mark Burgess, managing director at Treasury, said the fund is attracting strong interest ...