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Chief economist update: China shares inclusion in MSCI is a blessing and a curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
Three months and a few days ago, the inclusion of China's A-shares into MSCI indexes got investors all excited. 1 June 2018 marked the day when Morgan Stanley Capital Index (MSCI) included Chinese A-shares into its benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets ...

Unlisted property returns surpass equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... unlisted property sector returned 18.7% while local equities delivered 12.9%, according to data from Zenith Investment Partners, MSCI, the Property Funds Association and the Property Council of Australia. Unlisted property also outperformed listed property ...

Vanguard launches ESG funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... income securities across both emerging markets and major developed countries. The fund will track the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate ex SRI Exclusions Index, hedged to Australian dollars. Vanguard Australia head of product and marketing Evan ...

Industry fund awards sustainable equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... emerging markets and sustainability investing, the strategy aims to offer a significantly better sustainability profile than the MSCI Emerging Markets Index while also providing alpha in emerging markets. The strategy was developed in collaboration with ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... Ordinaries index ended the week of 20-24 August down 1.1% when most other equity markets around the world registered gains - the MSCI equity index for developed markets rose by 0.8% and that for emerging markets increased by 2.4%. While the Australian ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... positive return of developed equity markets. Note however, that this is because of US equities' outsized weighting in the MSCI index (around 54%). The Stoxx-50 index (-3.7%), the FTSE-100 (-1.7%) and the Nikkei-225 (-2.2%) are all down this year ...

Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... refining, oil and gas exploration and production, and integrated oil and gas and tobacco - the sub-industries defined by the MSCI. Vontobel AM Australia managing director Bobby Bostic said the change has come from demands of the fund's clients, who ...

Pengana LIC profitable again

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... significant negative market events." However, the LIC's investment performance has remained under the benchmark, the MSCI world total returns index, net dividends reinvested in A$. PIA's investments returned 11.9% to the financial year ending ...

New fund to invest in "clean disruption" tech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... the funds under management at 1.71%. The Performance fee is 15% on the amount by which the fund outperforms the benchmark MSCI World net total return index ex Australia in Aussie dollars. The AtlasTrend Online Shopping Spree Fund has returned 13.86% ...

ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... fixed income allocation," he said. "The fund will be distinctive in that we will report ESG exposures transparently using MSCI ESG ratings." The managers will use a propriety suite of analytical tools called CaTo to integrate risk factors into the investment ...