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Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... outbreak led to significant losses in equity markets during February, with the S&P 500 Index down 8.2% and the MSCI World Index Ex USA down 8.9%. Cerulli said this trend will likely continue, with the World Health Organisation declaring COVID-19 a pandemic ...

Thematic investing grows threefold

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... 2015, 69% have survived," Morningstar said. "Of those that have survived, just 41% and 26% have outperformed the MSCI World Index over the trailing five and 10 years, respectively. "Taken together, these figures paint a bleak picture for investors. They ...

US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... benchmark's 9.47%. The benchmark is blended index 25% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 75% MSCI World Index. It's shares component has a lower standard deviation (volatility) than the MSCI World Index but a lower sharpe ratio ...

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 ...