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Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... developed and emerging equity markets have completely erased their 2018 three and half months into 2019. The MSCI world index has rallied by 11.9% this year to date, more than offsetting last year's 9.1% decline. Similarly, the MSCI emerging market ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... 2015 when the People's Bank of China (PBOC) devalued the yuan from 6.21 to 6.40 per one yankee dollar. The MSCI world index dropped by 10% in response and the MSCI emerging markets index fell by 10.6%. Speculations back then was that the depreciation ...

Contango to launch global active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... Investment Management and mirrors WCM's existing Quality Global Growth Strategy, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index over the past 10 years. WCM has entered into an exclusive arrangement with CGA and Switzer Asset Management - which CGA acquired ...

Guinness Asset Management wins global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... 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 capital ...

Praemium SMAs go global

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... 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 in corporate ...

Douglass makes case for Magellan turnaround

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... even if, as was the case last year, performance is affected by the fact that the fund "looks nothing like the MSCI World Index." Discussing performance over the past 10 years - the fund achieved 6% over the MSCI World Index over this period - Douglass ...

Hedge funds riding wave of uncertainty: AIMA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... 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 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... 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 year, total ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... Watershed International ETF SMA delivered 6.86% p.a. gross return for its investors, outpacing its benchmark the MSCI World Index (AUD) which lost 2.48%, giving outperformance of 9.34%. In its July monthly report, the group's international separately ...

Concerns about EM unwarranted: William Blair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Markets Index are now only at 13%, down from 38% at the peak of the commodity boom and almost on par with the MSCI World Index," McClone said. He said it is true the correlation between commodity prices and emerging market equity prices significantly ...