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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 ...

Russell appoints index director

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... products, such as ETFs. Wacher, a former head of institutional sales and product for CMC Markets, Tokyo, joins Russell's global index team and will be responsible for building the regional business across its range of indexed products. Russell said it ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... Institutional investors and fund managers can use a new Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings data service from global index provider FTSE Group to identify eligible companies for investment. The FTSE4Good ESG ratings product, launched this ...

Ratings houses silent on Japan fund fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... their database has a 23.17 per cent weighting to international equities. Japan forms roughly 2.3 per cent of the global index weighting, meaning the Nikkei's plunge so far has made only 20 basis points of difference, he said. According to Morningstar ...

Former Soros partner targets retail market

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... Deloitte. Openly conceding the limitations of back testing, the company said its strategy had outperformed the S&P1200 global index over the past five years by 18.2 per cent per year.

GWA opens Melbourne office

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Global index provider, Global Wealth Allocation (GWA) has opened a Melbourne office and plans to launch a suite of Australian products in the next six months. Former GWA UK head of research, Tony Sutton returns to Australia to manage the Melbourne office ...

FTSE buys US pensions benchmark corp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... quant firm, Pensions Benchmark Corporation (PBC). All PBC's systems and databases integrated into FTSE, improving the global index provider's research capabilities. This integration will allow FTSE to create new indices and provide greater performance ...

FTSE opens environment indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... performance of those companies that are best positioned to benefit from a shift to a low carbon economy. Last month, the global index provider teamed up with KLD Research & Analytics to launch a set of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices. ...

FTSE adds more ESG indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... & Analytics have joined forces to provide a full suite of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices. The global index provider will collaborate with KLD to design and market the co-branded ESG indices. Peter Kinder, KLD president, described ...

Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Index firm FTSE has launched the Australia version of the established FTSE4Good Global index, which features the country's 'green' companies and is also a means to compare company best practice. The FTSE4Good Australia 30 Index contains Australia's ...