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Three down one to go, then another three in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... Fed's announcement. The S&P 500 soared by as high as 0.9% from its previous day's close to a new record high and the Dow Jones Industrials index by 0.8% (just 0.5% short of the record peak hit on 21 September this year). And why shouldn't ...

S&P Dow Jones partners with pension fund giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices has partnered with an international pension fund that will benchmark its ESG investment strategy against two newly launched indices. The Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is using two of S&P's new ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... benchmark does not have any transaction costs - it is a hypothetical calculation." InvestSMART's findings follow an S&P Dow Jones report from two weeks ago that found similar results. S&P found that over the 10-year period ending 30 June 2018, almost ...

New S&P indices factor in future carbon price risks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
S&P Dow Jones has launched 12 new indices that will adjust valuations of companies included in some of its established indices, to account for the future impact of carbon prices on stock prices. The S&P carbon price risk adjusted indices will be constructed ...

Real estate investment veteran to depart

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... from LaSalle Investment Management at the end of this year, after four decades with the firm. Beginning his career with Jones Lang Wootton in 1978, Mackie became responsible for LaSalle's Asia-Pacific business platform following the merger with LaSalle ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
MLC Life Insurance appointed a 30-year industry veteran as its new head of underwriting. Mick Jones will join MLC in August and report to chief underwriter and head of new business Debbie Kennedy. He will be responsible for leading the underwriting ...

Kelly+Partners to build Melbourne presence

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... accounting division will be led by Vanessa Sirotic, who joined Kelly+Partners in 2016, having previously worked with the Calvert Jones and Albert family offices. The private wealth division will be led by Andrew Johnson. He is currently director private ...

Pension fund CIO departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... we are incredibly grateful for his service to California over the past decade," CalPERS investment committee chair Henry Jones said. CalPERS serves more than 1.9 million members in the retirement system and administers benefits for more than 1.4 million ...

S&P to remove ASX healthcare firm from index

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... which include major Australian asset managers, will be removed from the ASX 200 pending acquisition by a US company. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Sirtex Medical will be removed from the index subject to shareholder and court approval of the acquisition ...

Investor education key to healthy ETF market: SPDR

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... comprised of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points." S&P Dow Jones Indices chair David Blitzer added that he wasn't a fan of leveraged ETFs, even though "people want to do them." "There is ...