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Macq Global Investments wins mandates...

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... outperformed its benchmark by nearly 10 per cent for the 12 months to August. The Arrowstreet Global Equity fund has beaten the MSCI All Countries World ex Australia - unhedged by more than 8 per cent over the 12 months to July.

Russell launches global infra fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... cycles. The S&P Global Listed Infrastructure (GLI) Index sunk 31.59 per cent in the year to June, slightly worse than the MSCI World Index, which lost 29 per cent over the same period. But stretch to five years and global listed infrastructure investors ...

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... recovery, the herd continues to thunder upwards. Three weeks into September 2009, developed market equities - as measured by the MSCI index -- have soared by over 51 per cent from the 2009 low hit last 9 March. The losses posted earlier in the year have ...

Oasis adds two groups and recovers FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... Barclay's Global Investors and State Street Global Advisors onto the platform. The six ETFs include the iShares S&P 500, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets, SPDR S&P/ASX 200 fund and the SPDR S&P/ASX 50 fund. But Lowe said financial planners are demanding ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... the fund's assets. The manager will manage the $232 million which will be benchmarked against either the FTSE All-World or MSCI All Countries World Index. According to a tender statement, the target outperformance is expected to be around 2 to 3 per ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... mean SMSF investors have been missing out on Asian equities' sterling performance, if the meteoric 41.3 per cent rise in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in the last eight months is anything to go by. Graeme Colley, superannuation strategy manager of ...

Australian Ethical closes World Trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... investment in international equities, then get the full international experience. The benchmark that we were using was the MSCI in Australian dollars anyway so there was kind of a double up."

US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... international equities strategy to Japanese pension funds. INTECH will provide the firm's Kokusai Strategy which uses the MSCI Kokusai Index as a benchmark and aims to achieve an annual excess return of 2.5-3.5 per cent with a tracking error less than ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... a one-year period to May 2009. The S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index lost more than 29 per cent over the same period and the MSCI World Accumulation Index (A$) Net of Divs (reinvested) lost 32 per cent. "While we are disappointed that returns for the one ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... global hedge fund index, domiciled in US dollars, returned 3.5 per cent in April while the S&P 500 posted 9.6 per cent and MSCI World Index returned almost 11 per cent. The Greenwich Global Long/Short index fared better during the month with a 5.7 per ...