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Magellan puts money where its mouth is

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... relative attractiveness of selected offshore companies. Australia only represents approximately 2.5 per cent of the MSCI World Index, and the Australian stock market is heavily concentrated in financial services and resource companies," he said.

DeAM global thematic fund impresses van Eyk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... sees companies all over the world compete for customers and capital. Not all of these companies are represented in the MSCI World Index," Barbour said. The minimum investment in the fund is $25,000.

Global indices are dinosaurs: Schroders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... could be heading for extinction, according to Schroders' head of sales, Brian Scott. Scott said indices such as the MSCI World (ex-Australia) were inefficient, had a poor alignment of interest, were unsafe and left out thousands of potentially valuable ...

Small cap oversight costs significant alpha

... managers consistently focusing on large cap shares. "There are around 1,500 small cap stocks on their benchmark, the MSCI World Index, and each of those small caps deliver an incremental alpha which they are missing out on," she said. Based in the UK ...

Canadian pension fund returns topping 14 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... gain and outpacing the S&P TSX Composite by 1.3 per cent. Foreign stocks also did their part, pushing the four-year MSCI World Index to 14.2 per cent in Canadian dollar terms. Canadian pension funds also boosted returns by limiting their exposure to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... Australian Stock Market rallied yesterday with in excess of a 100 stocks reaching year-long highs at a time when the MSCI World Index climbed to a similar high last reached in late February. Takeover activity of Coles, the Rinker Group and Qantas explained ...

Schroders casts net outside MSCI World

... further than Schroders Global Active Value, a fund that invests in shares outside the traditional global benchmark MSCI World Index. Schroders chief executive, Greg Cooper, said that one of the key issues raised at their roadshow for financial planners ...

More countries sign up for REITs

... global property are even better. The S&P/Citigroup World Property Broad Market Index returned 31.5 per cent versus the MSCI World Index return of 17.4 per cent. Harvey predicted the UK and Germany would be the next investment hotspots for REITs. "Germany ...

IXIS Loomis wins Telstra Super $100m mandate

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
... conviction concentrated portfolio of 40 to 50 global stocks. It is unhedged and aims to return 4 per cent above the MSCI World Index over a five year period. West added that the group has an intensive research process and looks at any high growth companies ...

Super funds keep tills ringing at Harris Alternatives

... Chicago-based firm returning an average annualised return of 11.74 per cent, net of all fees, since 1988. By comparison, the MSCI World composite index returned a lower 8.15 per cent over the same period. "It's also important for investors to know that ...