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Global X drops management fees

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... Meanwhile, the Global X USD High Yield Bond ETF (Currency Hedged) tracks the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market Index, hedged into Australia dollars and provides access to the attractive yields on offer in the sub-investment grade segment ...

Defensive equities strategies protect against downturn: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... "The median strategies in classic growth and quality growth are delivering a reduction of more than 80% versus the market index when it comes to weighted average carbon intensity, a trend we are seeing globally and within the Australian market as well ...

ETF Securities launches fixed income options

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2022
... Treasuries UCITS ETF. Meanwhile, the USD High Yield Bond (USHY) tracks the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market Index, hedged into Australia dollars. To qualify for the index, bonds must be issued by companies in developed market countries ...

MSCI launches implied temperature tool

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... targets. The company-level dataset will cover nearly 10,000 publicly listed companies based on the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index. The tool is in line with the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which recommends all financial ...

MSCI reclassifies Pakistan to frontier market

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
The index provider will reclassify Pakistan from emerging to frontier, on the back of size and liquidity. MSCI will implement the change in a single step in November, alongside its semi-annual index review (SAIR). "Although the Pakistani equity market ...

Bennelong launches emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
... long-term returns by investing responsibly in emerging markets. It holds up to 80 stocks and benchmarks the MSCI Emerging Market Index. Edinburgh-based Skerryvore lead portfolio manager Glen Finegan said the fund does not invest in Chinese education ...

Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... emergency purchase programme) talk that sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index on the up and up. The Eurozone's equity market index rose to its highest level in a year and three weeks to 3,845.60 points - up by 0.6% on the day, 8.2% this year to date and a ...

Super underperformance needs to be addressed: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JAN 2021
... compared super fund asset class sector average returns, across over 900 investment option, to the respective capital market index, and assessed how many investment options in each asset class matched or beat the index. "A super fund's active investment ...

Vanguard fund hits US$1trn

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... November with $1.3 trillion in total assets, in an unprecedented feat in funds management. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has been around since 1992 and follows a passive style of investing, with turnover rate limited to about 4%. "We take ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... Gray said. The super fund's Australian and international share portfolios have emitted 44% less carbon than the market index. Gray said the super fund will work with initiatives such as Climate Action (CA) 100+, the Australian Industry Energy Transitions ...