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Link to replace Veda in ASX200

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... Equifax. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced today that it will remove Veda Group Limited from Australia's principle large cap index, subject to shareholder and final court approval of the scheme of arrangement whereby the company will be acquired by Equifax. ...

Spire Copper Rock small cap fund added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... year period at Copper Rock Capital the team has delivered 5% gross out performance above the benchmark MSCI World Small Cap Index. The fund is now closed to institutional investors globally, including 13 Australian institutions, but Spire Capital has ...

SPIVA report shows most active managers beaten by index again

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
The latest S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) scorecard has once again revealed the vast majority of active managers underperform their benchmark. The latest rebalance of the semi-annual report for data to end of June 2015, shows that ...

Sigma wins industry fund equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... small cap companies when they offer significant risk-adjusted upside relative to the ASX 300, as opposed to a small cap index. Sigma is a boutique large and small cap Australian equities manager established in August 2009. The firm sits under Pinnacle ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
The average active fund's performance versus index strategies has worsened compared to the previous six months, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard. The report, issued semi-annually, tracks the performance of ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The vast majority of Australian active managed funds have under-performed their respective benchmark across virtually all sectors of the market over one, three and five years, the latest data from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows. The worst offending sector ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG, said investors were cheered by an 0.9 per cent rise in the Russell 2000 small-cap index. Weakness in the Russell 2000 has contributed to the broader market's malaise over the last month or so. The US Labor ...

Realindex outperforms as it passes five-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... Francis continued. He added that investors are recognising that smart beta funds offer a compelling alternative to market cap index funds and a cost-effective alternative to active management investment strategies. "Smart beta is an area that we think ...

Hunter Hall repositions fund

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... fund - which returned 7.4% last year - as a true-to-label small company manager that is judged against the ASX small-cap index - it was given a dedicated fund manager in Hunter Hall portfolio manager Jonathan Rabinovitz. "We felt that the smaller funds ...

NZ Superannuation Fund excludes four firms from portfolio

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... tracks global equity indices including the MSCI large-cap equity index, the MSCI emerging market index and the MSCI small-cap index. The portfolio is monitored for compliance with exclusions applied to the fund on a daily basis.