Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 641 - 650 of 812 results for "MSCI"

Korea and Taiwan may move to developed status

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
Fund managers may need to re-balance their investment weightings after tomorrow when global index provider MSCI announces whether it will upgrade South Korea and Taiwan from emerging market to developed market status. The move has been under discussion ...

Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... The shareholder yield strategy has delivered a net return of 5.4 per cent against the 2.4 per cent posted by the benchmark MSCI World Equity Index, over the last five years. "The Global Equity Shareholder Yield has been popular since the GFC, no question. ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Australia High Dividend Yield Index of 63 stocks. It has yearly management costs of 0.25 per cent. It also launched the Vanguard MSCI Australian Small Companies Index, which follows the benchmark MSCI Australian Shares Small Cap Index of 193 stocks. ...

HSBC targets planners with Asian wide product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... of the Hang Seng Index, the Hang Seng Chnia Enterprises Index (HSCEI), the Taiwan TAIEX Index, the KOSPI200 (Korea), the MSCI Singapore Free Index, the SET 50 Index (Thailand) and the iShares MSCI India Fund. The iShares MSCI India Fund is an exchange ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... minimum investment size of $1000, will be passively managed and will track selected stocks from countries covered within the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. In a move designed to set it apart from simple index-tracking funds and ETFs, the Realindex Emerging ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... were chosen to fill the 260 highest conviction positions across the 26 portfolios. There are 1500 possible choices in the MSCI World Index. Favourite stocks included Roche, which appeared in seven portfolios, tobacco maker Phillip Morris International ...

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... group was outstanding compared with global equities fund managers. Global equities outperformed the domestic index with the MSCI World ex-Australia Index rising 3.89 per cent over the first quarter - but global fund managers were unable to outpace it. ...

Russell makes senior hires

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... executive ASEAN, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India. Persaud has also held senior positions at Insight Investments, Schroders and MSCI.

Perpetual to debut global resources

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... and, to date, has outperformed its benchmark over key periods. In the year to March, it returned 24.2 per cent versus the MSCI Customised All Countries Resources Index' 6.5 per cent. In the three years to March, it returned 8.9 per cent versus its benchmark's ...

Researchers sharpen ETF focus

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... ETF funds last year. It published its first rating on the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 fund in November and has since rated the SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Fund. "There needs to be sufficient demand from adviser groups first but it's a commercial reality ...