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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. ...

AXA Framlington eyes Japanese tech firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... demand for sophisticated technology grows. The qualitative fund manager's Global Opportunities fund, which beat the MSCI World by more than 10 per cent during 2009, is searching for companies around the world that are benefiting from the emerging market ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... Platinum, and his team. The fund returned more than 19 per cent in the 12 months to December last year, beating the MSCI World ex-Australia (Net Dividend) by nearly 20 per cent. This result places in on Rainmaker's top 10 best performing global equities ...

Canadian pensions stage Q3 recovery

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... September. While Canada's pension funds have recovered somewhat, the strong domestic dollar had impacted returns. The MSCI World index jumped 20 per cent in local currency (US) terms but pension plans only rose by just over 10 per cent when converted ...

Russell launches global infra fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... cycles. The S&P Global Listed Infrastructure (GLI) Index sunk 31.59 per cent in the year to June, slightly worse than the MSCI World Index, which lost 29 per cent over the same period. But stretch to five years and global listed infrastructure investors ...