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Commercial property deals stuck at 2011 levels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023
... Sales of local commercial property assets have dropped to the lowest levels since 2011 for the second straight quarter, says MSCI. Latest data from MSCI shows transaction volumes in Q2 were down 61% year on year, coming in at $7 billion. This was down ...

ASIC sues Vanguard for greenwash in bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
... (Fund) were screened against certain ESG criteria." ASIC said investments in the fund were based on the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Exclusions Float Adjusted Index and "Vanguard claimed the index excluded issuers with significant business ...

AI-fuelled narrow market challenges diversification: Epoch

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
... size of the returns, but also the size in the benchmark." This has magnified to the point where it's also impacting the MSCI World 1500 stock benchmark, where seven stocks are accounting for 50% of the return. This becomes difficult when you want ...

Office sector down 8%: MSCI

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... estate sector continues to take a beating, suffering an 8% devaluation to its capital in the last financial year, according to MSCI. Commercial real estate funds returned -4.4% for investors and provided a measly 3.7% in income during the period. In ...

Smart beta ETP market share matures: Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023
... market dominance, holding a 48.7% market share in smart beta ETPs with $4.4 billion in AUM across 13 products. The VanEck MSCI International Quality ETF (QUAL) was the largest smart beta ETP in the Australian market, with $2 billion in assets. It was ...

The Australian small-cap conundrum: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... market capitalisation. "Global small-caps are, on average, two times larger than Australian small-caps, as represented by MSCI World Small Cap and S&P/ ASX Small Ordinaries," the paper explained. "Furthermore, the largest global small-cap, in the context ...

ASX red alert: Soaring negative cash flows raise concerns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
... Research by Plato Investment Management found 28% of ASX-listed companies have negative cash flow - more than any nation in the MSCI World index. Plato's head of long short strategies David Allen warned of the prevalence of negative operating cash ...

Alphinity debuts two funds on the ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... 8.5% p.a. over the past three years, outperforming the benchmark by 1.5% p.a. and 2.3% p.a. respectively. Both funds use the MSCI World Net Total Return Index (AUD) as a benchmark. "Both of these funds give retail investors easy access to a global portfolio ...

J.P. Morgan enters local ETF market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... fastest active ETF to reach US$13 billion and has seen US$3.5 billion in net new assets in Q3 alone. Meanwhile, JREG tracks the MSCI World while also leveraging J.P. Morgan's global research capabilities, which the company pumps US$150 million into ...

Women-led global equities teams outperform in downturn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... returns from portfolios run by women recorded a median return of -2.6% compared to a -5.9% return by male-led teams. "The MSCI All-Country World index was down 25.3% through September 2022 and women led portfolio management teams have done a markedly ...