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ESG continues to outperform: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... parent indexes for the first quarter of 2020 finding that the ESG indexes comprehensively outperformed their parents MSCI index. AXA Investment Managers undertook an analysis of how leading ESG companies had performed in the first quarter of 2020 compared ...

Chief economist update: Equity market disconnect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... 27.3%) have, in less than three months, nearly recouped what they've lost in the first three months of the year. The MSCI index for developed equity markets is down only 2.8% this year to date, the emerging markets index, down just 6.1%... and get ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... equities, BetaShares US Equities Strong Bear Fund was ranked first for flows, followed by iShares Core S&P 500 and Vanguard MSCI Index International. iShares S&P ASX 200 was ranked last for flows with a FUM change of minus $494 million. The Morningstar ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
China's come a long way, baby! 1 October 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Politburo has much to celebrate and boast about. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. Chairman Mao ...

Chief economist update: China shares inclusion in MSCI is a blessing and a curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
Three months and a few days ago, the inclusion of China's A-shares into MSCI indexes got investors all excited. 1 June 2018 marked the day when Morgan Stanley Capital Index (MSCI) included Chinese A-shares into its benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... return of developed equity markets. Note however, that this is because of US equities' outsized weighting in the MSCI index (around 54%). The Stoxx-50 index (-3.7%), the FTSE-100 (-1.7%) and the Nikkei-225 (-2.2%) are all down this year to date. ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
All of the liquid holdings of the world's second-largest reinsurer will be switched to track ethical indices by 2018. Since the beginning of the year, Swiss Re has been consistently integrating environmental, social and governance criteria into its ...

VanEck partners to launch ETF model portfolios

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... series are the VanEck Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF, VanEck Vectors MSCI World Ex Australia Quality ETF, Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF, VanEck Vectors AUstralian Property ETF, SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate ETF, VanEck Vectors ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... the MSCI emerging market index returned 11.4% 2016-to-September, this has wilted to only 6.8%. This compares with the MSCI index for developed equity markets' return of 3.1% tops this year and 4.8% recently. Emerging market equities outperformance has ...