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NZ Superannuation Fund excludes four firms from portfolio

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... portfolio, includes shares in more than 6,500 companies around the world, and 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 ...

Marathon assets under review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Hosking, who heads Marathon's global business, sets allocations for the global equity strategy, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index over three, five and 10 years to 2011. He also manages the Pacific-Basin equity fund with co-founder William Arah ...

Apostle launches global equity fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... attractive to the Australian market. "The Apostle Dundas Global Equity Fund seeks to target dividend growth in excess of the MSCI All Country World index and to also exceed inflation, to provide the income and capital protection that both accumulation ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... D-day. But while all these talks about "the coming" policy stimulus measures appear to be keeping equity markets afloat - the MSCI World Index is up 8.2% this year to date and the MSCI Emerging Market Index has gained 4.3% -- something tells me markets ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... to notice, despite warnings upon warnings that doomsday is nigh, equity markets are slowly crawling on the up and up. The MSCI World Index has risen by 8.4% year-to-date and is 10.1% above this year's low. The S&P 500 is up 11.5% and 9.7%, respectively. ...

Buy-right and equity managers will deliver income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... are terrified of, into income," he said. "These are exchange traded options, not over the counter, from established World MSCI top 100 companies where the options market for these securities is extremely liquid because it's underpinned by natural buyers ...

Treasury Group makes more Asian moves

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... Asset Management (OAM) has achieved an outstanding track record with +22% net returns since inception against -21% for the MSCI Asia Pacific, said TRG. Treasury funded the acquisition from working capital and the strike price of the option was correlated ...

All juiced up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... All assets with risk attached to them are jumping with joy and dancing on the streets. Global equities - measured by the MSCI All-Country World Index - jumped by 2.3% overnight, the biggest one-day gain since 20 December. The euro hopped above US$1.25. ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... basis point reduction in the reserve requirement ratio the PBOC handed down on 12 May. Now it's all good -- so good that the MSCI Asia apex index jumped by 1.8% on the news. Australian equities were not far behind with the All Ordinaries index jumping ...

MSCI risk model targets volatility

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
MSCI has released the fourth version of its Australian Equity Risk Model, designed to give Portfolio Managers better insight into risk and return. The Barra Australia Equity Model (AUE4) adapts to market volatility, so that forecasts and actual results ...