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California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... said. As of 27 November 2018, about 14% of the 364 California-headquartered constituents of the MSCI USA Investable Market Index recorded had all male boards. Thwing Eastman said Silicon Valley potentially has the biggest hurdle in meeting the 2019 deadline ...

Family office invests in absolute return fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... heights," he said. CA8 one year returns were down 67.5% as compared to the ASX 200 on September 21, according to Market Index.

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... since Monday. It hit its highest at 1.05pm, when it was up 0.33% from the previous day's close of 6244. The stock market index has since come down slightly but is holding its gains, at 6260 as of 2.14pm. The Aussie dollar was up 0.46% to 73 cents. ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... the announcement and because of its negative correlation with the Nikkei-225 index, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by 0.4% on the same day. But that was all it was, a knee-jerk reaction. Since the BOJ's July 31 announcement, the yen ...

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 ...