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Insync appoints portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... downside risk," Kotecha said. The Global Titans fund aims to deliver a return of 2% over cash annually and to outperform the MSCI AC World ex-Australia Net Total Return Index by 3% on a rolling three-year basis. Over the past three years, the fund has ...

SSGA wields power on gender equality

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... the chair of the board's nominating and/or governance committee if necessary. The asset manager argued its case based on MSCI research, which determined that companies with strong female representation on boards delivered a 36.4% increase in average ...

Emerging markets investment grows with new fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... Mercer said. The Emerging Markets Sustainable Leaders Fund has been constructed with limited reference to its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, with key holdings including Woolies in South Africa, Bank Zachodni in Poland, and Peru's Credicorp. ...

iShares receives 'recommended' rating

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... 'recommended' rating to two iShares Edge Smart Beta Minimum Volatility exchange traded funds. The ratings assigned to iShares Edge MSCI Australia Minimum Volatility ETF and the iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ETF indicates that Lonsec considers ...

Hedge funds riding wave of uncertainty: AIMA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... the year, hedge funds delivered a risk-adjusted return of 1.45, ahead of the 1.1 delivered by the S&P 500 and 0.68 from the MSCI World Index. This amounts to aggregate net gains of US$120 billion for investors, assuming they were to withdraw their investments ...

SQM backs active Indian equity fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... 2016, is domiciled in Sydney and benefits from research expertise both locally and in Mumbai. It's benchmarked against the MSCI India Index, which it has outperformed by 1.69% since inception. So far it has received investment backing from multi-family ...

Super fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... superannuation fund. The EM strategy includes securities primarily selected from stocks traded in all countries represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which is also the benchmark. ClariVest was recently awarded the EM mandate from a super fund ...

Concentrated funds outperform diversified

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... sector review. The review found that 70% of concentrated funds, or funds which hold less than 75 stocks, outperformed the MSCI World ex-Australian Index in $A, while only 55% of funds with greater diversification outperformed the index and generated ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... before Trump was good for emerging markets. Emerging market equities outperformed developed market ones. At its peak, the MSCI emerging market index returned 11.4% 2016-to-September, this has wilted to only 6.8%. This compares with the MSCI index for ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... September quarter 2016 were as follows: the S&P/ASX 200 increased 3.9%; the price of foreign shares, as represented by the MSCI World Index excluding Australia, increased 4.3%; and the A$ appreciated 2.7% against the US$." Compared with the previous ...