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China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... from foreign investors wanting exposure to internet stock giants such as Baidu and Alibaba. But as China's emerging market index concentration grows, iShares says investors might be better off adopting a single country focus on China by rethinking emerging ...

SSGA launches ESG-heavy strategy for Aussie instos

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... the ESG outcome, but to avoid significant deviations in country and sector allocations when compared to the broader market index. There are less than a handful of existing options to do this locally," she said. The dedicated fund follows on from SSGA ...

China A-shares ETFs launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... asset size, financial health and growth characteristics. With the inclusion of China A-shares in the MSCI Emerging Market Index, investors are increasingly looking for strategies that provide efficient access to the mainland markets. They also seek to ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... that propelled the Nikkei-225 index to its highest level last week lingers. On 11 October, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by a mere 0.28% but its closing level of 20,881.27 points marked its best finish in 21 years or since December 1996. ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... consumer and business sector advancing, housing is too. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) housing market index - a weighted average of "market conditions for current new sales in the next six months, as well as as prospective buyer traffic ...

Factor investing must be long-term: Vanguard

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... than the rule of tracking a broad market cap-weighted benchmark. Some factor tilts may outperform a comparable broad market index over time, but it is more accurate to say that these rules-based active strategies perform differently to the market, rather ...

Super wealth reaches record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
The amount of wealth Australians hold in superannuation is climbing to a record high, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. At the end of December 2016, Australians held $2.6 trillion of household net worth in superannuation ...

ESG risk tool launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... set of standardised ESG data and flagged metrics comparable across a range of companies in the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index (IMI). The tool can map geographic exposure to fragile ecosystems; chemical safety regulations; climate vulnerable regions ...

Fund manager launches new IMA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... believes employing an unconstrained approach to investment can provide superior risk-adjusted returns. "Replicating a market index ultimately does not make sense for individual investors, why would you invest in a company simply because it is listed ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... for emerging markets. Emerging market equities outperformed developed market ones. At its peak, the MSCI emerging market index returned 11.4% 2016-to-September, this has wilted to only 6.8%. This compares with the MSCI index for developed equity markets' ...