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Cooper Investors grows retail presence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Rainmaker data shows. It produced a net return of 20.5% in the 12 months to 28 February, 2018, which is 3.3% above the benchmark MSCI AC World Index. Average annual return for the last five years is 16.1%, the fund manager said in a statement. The hedged ...

Unlisted property top performer in 2017: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... times more than Australian equities in 2017. This is according to a joint report compiled by Zenith Investment Partners, MSCI and the Property Funds Association, which found Australian unlisted property funds generated total returns averaging 23.4% in ...

BetaShares expands in Queensland

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... appointed Tamas Calderwood as national manager, adviser services. Calderwood will be based in Sydney and joins BetaShares from MSCI, where he was vice president - client coverage. Calderwood previously worked at Morgan Stanley, CIBC, Bloomberg and ANZ. ...

Guinness Asset Management wins global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... Global Innovators Fund, which holds a concentrated portfolio of global equities and delivered a 9.58% outperformance over the MSCI World Index in 2017. Alpha Fund Managers' Julien Brodie said that the strategy "resonates with our view on where future ...

VanEck launches sustainable ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... launch a global equities ETF on the ASX to meet investors' shifting preferences for sustainable options. The VanEck Vectors MSCI International Sustainable Equity ETF, to list under ticker code ESGI, will invest in international companies using in-depth ...

Boutique fund manager adds to distribution team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... financial planning boutique firm, which he established in 1984. The firm's flagship Global Equity Fund, aims to outperform the MSCI ACWI by investing in companies with attractive long-term growth potential in both developed and developing markets. The ...

Praemium SMAs go global

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... available on the platform, providing greater choice and cost-effective, direct access to 26 developed global markets within the MSCI World Index. "We are very excited to have added an international capability to the Praemium SMA. With established expertise ...

Asset management services provider expands to Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... in 2015, is an affiliate of the London-based Blackwell Global group. Separately, in mid-2017, global equity index provider MSCI announced it will add China A shares to two of its indices starting June 2018. MSCI said the move follows broad support from ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... trading week of January as it had done so in 2017. Equity market returns: 1st week of Jan 2017 Full-year 2017 Nasdaq 2.56 28.24 MSCI Emerging 1.83 27.82 Dow 1.02 25.08 S&P 500 1.70 19.42 Nikkei 225 1.78 19.10 MSCI World 1.69 16.14 All Ords 1.57 7.84 ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... Langham in Melbourne, exchange-traded funds (ETF) experts from the likes of BlackRock iShares, State Street Global Advisors, MSCI and VanEck addressed delegates on best practice when it comes to using ETFs in an advice strategy and what the future holds ...