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Commonwealth Super awards mandate for new strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... use of energy, water and scarce resources." Osmosis said the portfolio will be 60% more resource efficient than the MSCI World (ex-Australia) benchmark. "CSC is our first Australian client and joins a growing roster of forward-thinking investors who ...

First strike at Pengana LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
... passing it. The global equities portfolio returned 11.3% in the year, post fees and expenses. This outstripped the MSCI World Total Return Index by 6.5%. It is also moving from an annual dividend to quarterly dividends (January, April and July), after ...

Industry fund launches new passive options

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... option is set at 0.07%. Meanwhile, the International Shares (Indexed) option will look to match the returns of the MSCI World ex-Australia Total Return Index, 70% unhedged and 30% hedged in Aussie dollars over three years. It also incurs an investment ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... empirical analysis shows it's not this simple," Wei said. "When we plot the relationship between quality and value for all MSCI World stocks, we see that it is possible to have value stocks with earnings certainty and low leverage, and vice versa, for ...

Ausbil drops fees on global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... model on the SRI universe. It has had a good year of performance, returning 7.6% (after fee but before taxes) to the MSCI World (net dividends reinvested)'s 4.82% over the 12 months ending June 30. Returns since December 2002 inception are 0.79% p.a. ...

GMO launches global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... portfolio managers Tom Hancock, Ty Cobb and Anthony Hene. It has returned 9.15% p.a. since inception to S&P 500's 9.23% and MSCI World's 7.29%, as at August end. For the last three calendar years, the portfolio beat both the benchmarks. Nearly 45% of ...

Fidelity launches global fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... US$1 billion and US$40 billion. The fund charges a management fee of 1.10% per annum and is benchmarked against the MSCI World Mid Cap Index. The minimum initial investment is $25,000. The fund managers said there is a lot more to global investing than ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... 2019, returning 2.5%, 2.21% and 10.04% compared to the S&P 500's 7.19%, 9.74% and 31.49%. They also underperformed the MSCI World Index, which returned 6.72% in August, 5.73% year to date, and 28.4% in 2019.

MSCI launches domestic index series

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... Dividend Yield Index, MSCI Australia Domestic IMI Custom ESG Index, MSCI Emerging Markets With Special Tax Index and MSCI World With Special Tax Index. The MSCI Australia Index was introduced in 1969 and is now a part of the larger Developed Markets ...

Hearts and Minds donates almost $10m to charity

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... a pre-tax investment return of 26.1% for the year ending June 30, significantly outperforming its global benchmark (MSCI World Net TR), which increased 4.8% over the financial year. Since its inception in November 2018, HM1 has generated a pre-tax return ...