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Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... 10.8 per cent in the past 12 months, in contrast to a fall of almost four times that amount or 42.1 per cent in the MSCI World Index," highlighted Seccombe. Based on data collated by Thomson Reuters, both institutional investors and advisers have increased ...

Principal Global Investors wins $160m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... the underlying investment fund for all Suncorp retail global share funds. The trust had regularly outperformed the MSCI World ex-Australia Index but the new mandates, including PGI's, were appointed after Suncorp decided to shake its line up of managers ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... global equities funds, found similar results with 27 or more than half of active global fund managers underperformed the MSCI World ex Australia index over a one year period. In addition, Rainmaker found just eight out of 14 emerging market equity funds ...

Aviva pushes PRI cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... energy fund. Aviva Investors annual general meeting (AGM) voting practices will now extend to all global holdings on the MSCI World Index. The firm is also including the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) in its contracts with ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... companies to sign a set of corporate social responsibility standards. The 52 strong group wrote to companies listed on the MSCI World, FTSE All World and IFC Emerging Markets indices to sign the UN Global Compact, a set of principles regarding human ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... nearly 20 value-biased fund managers, only Grant Samuel Epoch stayed in the black, returning 1.2 per cent against the MSCI World equity index which lost 11 per cent during the same period. Epoch Investment Partners' US-based managing director in global ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity markets, as measured by the MSCI World Equity Index, have lost more than 36 per cent of their value. America's S&P 500 index has fallen by 35 percent since the ...

HFs continue to outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... month. The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index lost 4.85 per cent during September against the S&P 500 Total Return and MSCI World Equity indices which lost 8.91 per cent and 12.08 per cent respectively. Just last week, the Dow Jones index was down 20 ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... point drop on record; the Nasdaq Composite Index slumped by 9.1 per cent -- the sharpest decline since April 2000. The MSCI World Index, which tracks the performance of 23 developed equity markets decreased by 6.9 per cent -- the biggest in 21 years. ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... 10,917.5 (Dow 10,000?). Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index fell by 3.5 per cent -- the biggest decline since March 17. The MSCI World Index (developed equities) recorded its biggest one-day fall in six years and the MSCI Asia Pacific (ex Japan) dropped ...