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Fossil fuel exposures climb at UniSuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... to June end, it added TC Energy and APA Group to its holdings. UniSuper said its exposure to fossil fuel was on par with MSCI World and lower than ASX 200 (which has 23%), and that it varies based on market movements and investment decisions. "Illustrating ...

Morningstar now an ETF issuer

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... Morningstar International Shares (Hedged) Fund which has a minimum investment size of $10,000. The fund has beat its benchmark MSCI All Country World ex-Australia Index with Net Dividends Reinvested (Hedged into $AUD) since inception, and in recent periods. ...

US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... are 8.65% to benchmark's 9.47%. The benchmark is blended index 25% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 75% MSCI World Index. It's shares component has a lower standard deviation (volatility) than the MSCI World Index but a lower ...

Colonial First State launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... Distributions are half yearly. Performance of the Baillie Gifford's Global Stewardship UK composite was 5.7% p.a. over the benchmark (MSCI All Country World Index benchmark) from December, 2015 inception to June end. CFS and Gifford have a partnership ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... economy in the world (since 2010 when it overtook Japan); the 'A' shares in its stock market is now included in the MSCI indexes; and the Chinese yuan officially became a world currency on 1 October 2016 - making it the third reserve currency ...

Research Affiliates strengthens Australian presence

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... Fundamental Indexing (RAFI) strategies in the London market. Previously, he served as executive director, head of sales at MSCI, based in London. He has also worked as relationship manager at Citigroup and at Suncorp. In his new role, Willis is responsible ...

Best and worst performing global shares funds revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... performing funds made a positive return," Morningstar senior analyst, manager research Andrew Miles said. "But the benchmark [MSCI World] was up 17% to June end and so, relative to that investors have lost out by investing in these funds when they could ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... to the ESG Australian Bond Index Fund the two launched earlier this year. Benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-fossil fuels index, the iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund is designed to allow investors to ...

Pengana adds fee class for global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... to invest in the strategy with a lower management fee of 0.65% with a 15% performance fee for returns above the benchmark MSCI All Country World Index. The fund has underperformed the MSCI All Country World Index in AUD by 0.38% in since inception in ...

Cooper Investors launches equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... 6.1%. Volatility and downside capture were roughly 88% and 62% respectively of the reference index. The manager uses the MSCI All World net dividends in local currency as the reference index to measure the volatility and the downside capture but the ...