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PM Capital Absolute Performance fund recommended by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013

Platinum reports stellar result

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... Exchange (ASX). The strong performance contributed to the group's fiver-year performance figures of 10.4% versus 3.3% from the MSCI World Index and brings the investment company's annualised pre-tax return since its 1994 inception to 12.6% compared to ...

PM Capital boosted by beer and Las Vegas property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... posting a 77.8% return over the 12 months to 31 July. The figure dwarfs the 44.5% return achieved by the fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index. The firm's latest success story has been a direct play on the US housing recovery. On discovering three-bedroom ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... surrounding the performance of emerging economies it would be wrong to tar them all with the same brush," Hepner said. The MSCI Emerging Market Index has underperformed its developed world counter-part by some 20 percentage points in 2013, with developing ...

Reversing fortunes to another crisis?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... energy stocks, with limited additional tracking error and improved returns." Excluding the fossil energy stocks from the MSCI World Index over the last seven years (to the end of April 2013) would have boosted portfolios by 0.5% annually with only a ...

MSCI upgrades heighten frontier market concentration risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
MSCI's recent upgrade of frontier markets economies has heightened the diversification risk for index strategies in the space, according to Advance Emerging Capital chief investment officer Dr. Slim Feriani. The changes, which come into effect in May ...

Morphic receives Lonsec approval

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... Stanley. Since inception on August 2, 2012 to end May 2013, MGOF has achieved a return of 28.7% compared with benchmark return (MSCI All Countries Total Return Index) of 30.17%.

Environmental trends a boost for Impax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... of analyst coverage; there are just five analysts per stock in Impax's investment universe compared to 18 per stock in the MSCI World index. This means markets are less well understood and therefore the opportunities for finding price anomalies is in ...

NZ Super takes stand on nuclear weapons

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... devices in 2008. The Fund's investment portfolio is continually reviewed, based on information from specialist screening agency MSCI, and other reliable sources of information, to ensure its list of excluded companies remains up to date.