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Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... approximately $25 million in funds under management. The fund returned more than 23 per cent for the year to May while the MSCI World ex Australia recorded 8 per cent for the same period.

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... markets read about this ahead of trading activity in their own time zones. And yet, they opted to ignore the signal. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slipped 0.1 per cent and the All Ordinaries Index closed 0.7 per cent lower. Don't you just wish you were ...

Vanguard to release 19 more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
US-based Vanguard plans to provide 19 exchange traded funds (ETFs) across FTSE, MSCI, Russell and Standard & Poor's indices that it says will be cheaper than existing products. The index fund provider is developing eight equity funds and ETFs using ...

China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... line with expectations, with key earning drivers coming from the financial, capital goods and utilities. "If you take the MSCI China, its earnings growth was about 16 per cent year-on-year on the back of a 4 per cent increase in revenue," she said. "But ...

Aurora wins $190m Optimix mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... strategy exploits market inefficiencies around the announcement of earnings results, while maintaining broad exposure to the MSCI World Index. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer at ING Investment Management, said that the strategy has now ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... performance. In the year to date, Bennelong SGI Global Equities returned more than 5 per cent, beating its benchmark, the MSCI World index, by at least 100 basis points. The fund is distributed locally by Bennelong Funds Management. The underlying manager ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... 100 companies that Epoch invested in raised their dividends. While the average dividend yield of the fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index, returned 2.5 per cent, the Grant Samuel Epoch Global Equity Shareholder Yield averaged a much higher 4.6 per ...

Platinum snubs US healthcare reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... us," she said. The fund's biggest holdings include Caliper Life Science, Johnson & Johnson and UCB SA. The fund beat the MSCI AC World Health Care index, returning 14 per cent in the year to February while the index lost minus 0.5 per cent.

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... shouldn't be any one thing that will cause it to go down," he said. His strategy is simple. Beat the fund's benchmark, the MSCI world index, by at least 300 basis points (three per cent) each year by investing in around 100 high-quality growth stocks. ...

MSCI buys RiskMetrics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
MSCI has bought risk management and corporate governance researcher, RiskMetrics, in a cash and stock transaction worth more than A$1.7 billion, but a RiskMetrics spokesperson said it's business as usual in Australia. The index provider bought RiskMetrics ...