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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 ...

Ambassador wins Copper Rock mandate in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... quantitative and fundamental analyses to identify companies with superior growth rates. We expect to outperform the MSCI World Small Cap Index generally by 300bps gross of fees over a full market cycle," said Dexter. "We identified Australia as a market ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... approximately $25 million in funds under management. The fund returned more than 23 per cent for the year to May while the MSCI World ex Australia recorded 8 per cent for the same period.

Aurora wins $190m Optimix mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... exploits market inefficiencies around the announcement of earnings results, while maintaining broad exposure to the MSCI World Index. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer at ING Investment Management, said that the strategy has now been included ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... performance. In the year to date, Bennelong SGI Global Equities returned more than 5 per cent, beating its benchmark, the MSCI World index, by at least 100 basis points. The fund is distributed locally by Bennelong Funds Management. The underlying manager ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... companies that Epoch invested in raised their dividends. While the average dividend yield of the fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index, returned 2.5 per cent, the Grant Samuel Epoch Global Equity Shareholder Yield averaged a much higher 4.6 per cent. ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... shouldn't be any one thing that will cause it to go down," he said. His strategy is simple. Beat the fund's benchmark, the MSCI world index, by at least 300 basis points (three per cent) each year by investing in around 100 high-quality growth stocks. ...