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US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... found the Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index (GGHFI) returned 0.42 per cent in January while the S&P 500 Total Return index, MSCI World Equity and the ASX 200 lost, more than 8.4 per cent 8.8 per cent and almost five per cent respectively.

MSCI Barra ups liquidity reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
MSCI Barra is proposing to review liquidity across MSCI Global Investable Market Index constituents across developed and emerging markets on a quarterly basis instead of half yearly as part of the firm's plan to deal with the credit crisis. In addition ...

CAAM funds awarded 'recommended' rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... Agricole's emerging market equities team and believes the fund is well positioned to meet its objective and outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets Total Return Index by two per cent. Credit Agricole's emerging markets equities team is headed by Patrice ...

Martin Currie rakes $500m and growing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... cent. The product did exactly that over the three-year and five-year to January, and in the last two months, outperformed its MSCI World ex-Australia benchmark. Kouryialas said that this year, they are looking to make the product available to retail ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... hedge funds have hit the ground running this year, returning 0.42 per cent in January while the S&P 500 Total Return and MSCI World Equity indices lost more than eight per cent. According to a VanMac report, the Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index (GGHFI) ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... only 10.8 per cent in the past 12 months, in contrast to a fall of almost four times that amount or 42.1 per cent in the MSCI World Index," highlighted Seccombe. Based on data collated by Thomson Reuters, both institutional investors and advisers have ...

Principal Global Investors wins $160m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... Trust is the underlying investment fund for all Suncorp retail global share funds. The trust had regularly outperformed the MSCI World ex-Australia Index but the new mandates, including PGI's, were appointed after Suncorp decided to shake its line up ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... its benchmark since inception. The fund, which is available to Australian investors, lost 3.3 per cent, outperforming the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index more than four fold when the index lost 14.4 per cent over a two-year period. "There was ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... global equities funds, found similar results with 27 or more than half of active global fund managers underperformed the MSCI World ex Australia index over a one year period. In addition, Rainmaker found just eight out of 14 emerging market equity funds ...

Aviva pushes PRI cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... energy fund. Aviva Investors annual general meeting (AGM) voting practices will now extend to all global holdings on the MSCI World Index. The firm is also including the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) in its contracts with ...