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GQG sees spectacular FUM growth

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... officer Rajiv Jain and holds about 45 securities, returned 9.27% last year compared to the 6.15% from the benchmark MSCI ACWI ex tobacco.

MSCI launches UN SDG alignment tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... negative) towards addressing the UN's 17 goals. Using publicly available information, the tool found that 54% of MSCI ACWI constituents were mostly aligned to the SDGs; many were compatible with the eighth SDG goal (decent work and economic growth). ...

NPS buffers COVID-19 shocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... delivered about -6.08% in the first quarter. South Korea's main stock market index, KOSPI, returned -32.5%, while the MSCI ACWI dropped by 31.8% over the same period. NPS said such adverse market conditions pushed the fund into negative territory ...

Perpetual launches two ESG funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... Madden, Matthew Patsky and Patrick Wollenberg. It has a strong performance track record. It has beat the benchmark, MSCI ACWI on 10 (fund 9.20% p.a. vs index 9.16%), five year (by 2.1% p.a.), three year (by 2.43% p.a.) and year to date basis (by 2.52% ...

Superannuation smashes gender diversity goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 3 FEB 2019
... assessing the state of female representation on corporate boards and in senior management within the nations represented in its ACWI index, MSCI lamented what seemed to be slow progress. "Overall progress continues to be slow, and is shown to be lagging ...

Female board representation increases in Australia: MSCI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... assessing the state of female representation on corporate boards and in senior management within the nations represented in its ACWI index, MSCI lamented what seemed to be slow progress. "Overall progress continues to be slow, and is shown to be lagging ...

MSCI launches tobacco exclusion indexes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... pension and endowment funds for tobacco exclusion benchmarks." The firm's initial suite of tobacco exclusion indexes includes ACWI, World, EAFE, Japan and EM offerings. The launch coincides with the launch of the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge at the UN ...

Better than bonds: A new approach to lifecycle investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... assets over a 30-year period. The classic lifecycle portfolio kicks off with 40% invested in the S&P/ASX 200, 40% in MSCI ACWI ex Australia and 20% in the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index (AUD). Each year the fund managers pull out 1% from each growth ...

Don't fear the inflation reaper: Capital Group

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... Budden discussed Capital Group's New Perspective Fund (NPF), which has a 43-year track record and has outperformed the MSCI ACWI by 3.5% per annum since March 1973. He said that in an environment that's tilting towards inflation, there may be "some managers ...

Boutique fund manager adds to distribution team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... 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 fund is ...