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Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... companies found that since the GFC, listed companies led by women achieved investment returns of more than double the global index return. Super funds in Australia with the highest W-index scores in the Rainmaker study were HESTA, Care Super, AvSuper ...

FTSE Russell partners with $7bn super fund to create new indices

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... our members and build their confidence in their financial future." "At Qantas Super, we identified the need for a global index that incorporates the tax impacts that apply to members of Australian superannuation funds and worked with FTSE Russell for ...

Millennial super fund creates advisory board

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... fees for its flagship fund, GrowthX, from 1.6% to 0.99%. It's also created a new investment option, the Spaceship Global Index Fund, which has a 0.65% fee and is aimed at reducing Australian equities exposure relative to other super funds. The fund's ...

SSGA fund divests tobacco and weapons

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... Australian-based fund with about $900 million under management is divesting from weapons and tobacco companies. The State Street Global Index Plus Trust, which invests in global companies and aims to outperform the MSCI World ex-Australia Index over ...

AMP Capital awards historic $17bn passive mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... flexible UBS passive portfolio management systems," UBS said. The firm added that over the past decade, it has grown its global index investing capability by more than 400%. With the new AMP Capital mandates, UBS now manages about $315 billion in passive ...

Space and biblical indexes launched

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
Developer of custom investment indexes, S-Network Global Indexes, is proving there is an abundance of methods and opportunities to measure and track market performance. In the past month, the publisher has launched three indexes including the eVALUEator ...

MSCI delays China A shares inclusion in indices

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
Global index provider MSCI has delayed including mainland China-listed equities, known as A shares, in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Over recent months Chinese authorities have introduced significant improvements in the accessibility of the China ...

Industry fund awards $500m mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
An industry superannuation fund has placed $500 million with IFM Investors' global indexed equity strategy. HESTA's large investment marks the first mandate for the recently-launched strategy and IFM Investors chief executive Brett Himbury said the ...

MSCI measures insto ESG exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
Global index and research house MSCI has launched an MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index alongside its MSCI ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics with the aim of allowing institutional investors to measure exposure to public companies whose products and services ...

Plato appoints senior manager for Global Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Plato Investment Management has hired a senior portfolio manager to manage its newly launched Global Shares Income Fund. Daniel Pennell joined the fund manager from Realindex Investments, a Colonial First State subsidiary focused on smart beta. As lead ...