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Aussie income equities fare well amid turmoil

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... Accumulation Index saw -7.7%. The best performing Aussie equities income fund for the 12 months to September end was the SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield Fund with a 3% return. This is followed by Investors Mutual Equity Income Fund (1.5%) ...

J.P. Morgan enters local ETF market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... fastest active ETF to reach US$13 billion and has seen US$3.5 billion in net new assets in Q3 alone. Meanwhile, JREG tracks the MSCI World while also leveraging J.P. Morgan's global research capabilities, which the company pumps US$150 million into ...

Women-led global equities teams outperform in downturn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... returns from portfolios run by women recorded a median return of -2.6% compared to a -5.9% return by male-led teams. "The MSCI All-Country World index was down 25.3% through September 2022 and women led portfolio management teams have done a markedly ...

Hostplus hands Bell Asset Management $500m mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2022
... behalf." Bell's core focus is on its global equity capabilities; it's small and mid-cap strategy has outperformed the MSCI World SMID Cap index by +5.3% per annum over the past five years and returned 12.2% per annum since its inception in 2003. ...

Firetrail global opportunities fund hits ASX

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... launched in November 2021, is a concentrated portfolio of Firetrail's best global equity ideas and aims to outperform the MSCI World Net Total Return Index (AUD) over the long term. It typically holds about 30 stocks and has about $204 million under ...

GQG Partners awards RE mandate

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... for its new dividend income fund. The Global Quality Dividend Income Fund aims to provide a rate of return exceeding the MSCI ACWI High Dividend Yield ex Tobacco AUD Index. It invests primarily in equity securities or equity-linked instruments of global ...

Future Generation expands Plato mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022
... investment company has made a new allocation to Plato's Global Net Zero Hedge Fund, supporting its ambition to outperform the MSCI World Net Returns Unhedged Index while achieving a net zero carbon footprint. Launched in September last year, the Plato ...

UniSuper caps future investment in fossil fuels

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2022
... carbon intensity of all pre-mixed options, including defined benefit, is below the reference benchmarks of the ASX300 and MSCI world. The fund has developed a shadow carbon price for the top 50 companies or unlisted assets where the fund feels carbon ...

NZ Super shifts $25bn to low carbon indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
... reduce" the number of listed companies the fund owns directly. The NZ$57 billion fund began to roll over its indices to the MSCI World Climate Paris Aligned Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Climate Paris Aligned Index in June, with the new benchmark ...

BlackRock unveils new iShares ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... income securities including government, government-related, corporate, securitised, and green bonds. It tracks the Bloomberg MSCI Global Aggregate Sustainable and Green Bond SRI AUD Hedged Index and also includes an improved sustainability profile while ...