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Emerging markets equity fund launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... strategy's focus on the quality of individual businesses has led to a portfolio significantly different from its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. As of March 2015, Harding Loevner reported US$42 billion ($55 billion) assets under managemen ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... career. PM Capital's flagship Global Companies Fund has returned 315% since inception in October 1998 versus 83.5% from the MSCI AC World Net Index (AUD) as of 31 March 2015. That equates to an annualised return of 9.1%. Read the full article in the ...

Morphic added to Macquarie platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... return of 28.84% (annualised and net of fees) as at 30 April 2015. Morphic said that despite hedging costs it has beaten its MSCI All Countries Total Return benchmark in Australian dollars, by a compound 40 basis points a year.

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... three years: 2011, 2013 and 2014. The trend is reflected in Tempo's fund, a smart beta strategy that aims to outperform the MSCI index by investing equal parts of the portfolio in eight different equity markets. The portfolio is updated monthly following ...

FTSE appoints AU/NZ director

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... Global index provider FTSE has appointed a new director for Australia and New Zealand. Previously an executive director at MSCI, Justin Walsh will assist in expanding the product analytics and research, client distribution, client services and marketing ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... It'll be a pain tracking down the number of days each stock market fell so we'll just look at the sum of the whole - the MSCI developed and emerging equity market indices - both have fallen three days before May, totalling 1.8% and 2.5%, respectively. ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... pick up steam, while in the US QE has just wound down, so you have the opposite effect." The fund aims to outperform the MSCI index by investing equal parts of the portfolio in eight different equity markets: "when you think about investing globally ...

Van Eck ETFs added to CFS FirstWrap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... currency markets. The four ETFs now available on FirstWrap are the Market Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF, Market Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality ETF, Marker Vectors Australian Banks ETF and Market Vectors Australian Property ETF. "We are ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... there were heavy losses for equities in key regions such as Brazil and Russia according to Legg Mason. The company said the MSCI EM Index fell almost 20% in the fourth quarter of 2014, and some individual regions were falling further still. "The widespread ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... labour, controversial weapons (defined as "cluster bombs, landmines, depleted uranium, and chemical and biological weapons" by MSCI), corporate board quality, corruption and accounting practices. Investors' interest in (and motivations for considering) ...