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Climate change-focused fund introduced

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... economy. The Aviva Investors Climate Transition Global Equity Fund is benchmarked to outperform the MSCI All Countries World Index by 2% per annum on a rolling three-year basis, and is managed by portfolio manager Jaime Ramos Martin in partnership with ...

Sustainable ETF demand skyrockets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... proliferated over the past three years. Globally, the total number of sustainable index funds has risen by half to 3432. Meanwhile, MSCI remains the leader in the sustainable indexing space. About two thirds of all global assets invested in passive sustainable ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... professionals in Australia, and found that, globally, respondents forecast a loss of 7% for the S&P 500 and a loss of 7.3% for the MSCI World Index at year end. Their 2020 return expectations more closely resemble the modest declines seen in 2018 than ...

Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... the COVID-19 outbreak led to significant losses in equity markets during February, with the S&P 500 Index down 8.2% and the MSCI World Index Ex USA down 8.9%. Cerulli said this trend will likely continue, with the World Health Organisation declaring ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... investors rushing to sell down their riskier, offshore assets and safeguard their wealth amid plunging global markets. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index ended 2019 up 18.4% in 2019. So far in the COVID-19 sell-off the benchmark has fallen 30%. Yet, in ...

Latin America on institutional investment radar

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... Asenjo said. The King Irving Sura Pacific Alliance Fund is currently overweight in Peru by more than 10%, relative to the MSCI Latam Pacific Alliance Capped Index. Geographically Mexico makes up half of the investment portfolio. In terms of sectors ...

iShares Core launches in Australia

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... construct entire portfolios and provide global multi-asset class exposure. They include the two newly launched exposures to the MSCI World Investment Market Index, which captures large, mid and small cap companies across 23 developed market countries. ...

ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... John Dyall said. "In the past two months the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index lost 10.7% while the MSCI All Countries World Index lost 5.7% in Australian dollar terms. Despite this inflows continued to be strongly positive, meaning that the loss of funds ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... chief executive Robyn Petrou, exposure to Asia is mandatory and the fund is even overweight in the region compared to the MSCI index. It currently has $79 million of its $5.9 billion in funds under management invested in Asian equities ex Japan. "We ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... safety of the U.S. currency and Treasuries in the third quarter, dragging equity markets in 37 of the 45 countries in the MSCI All-Country World Index into bear markets, or declines of 20 percent from a peak." Woe is us for there are much more to worry ...