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UBS Global Access targets tough times

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... investment structure. Investors can select exposure to the US market via the S&P 500 index, Asia (excluding Japan) via the MSCI AC Asia-ex Japan index or Australia via the S&P/ASX200 index. "Investors may think shares are cheap but aren't confident of ...

Intech taps ex-BT head of quant and two QIC staff

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... Quantitative Investment Strategies), Rothschild Australia Asset Management (Director, Head of Quantitative Analysis) and (MSCI) BARRA International. He will be responsible for investment strategy and asset allocation within Intech's investment team. ...

RIMES and MSCI Barra team up

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Financial services tech firm RIMES Technologies is joining forces with MSCI Barra, an investment decision support tools provider by integrating RIMES SmartFiles into BarraOne - a portfolio risk and performance attribution platform. RIMES is a financial ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... companies to sign a set of corporate social responsibility standards. The 52 strong group wrote to companies listed on the MSCI World, FTSE All World and IFC Emerging Markets indices to sign the UN Global Compact, a set of principles regarding human ...

Essex County seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... equities manager, with the mandate value ranging from $255 million to $763 million. The manager's target is to outperform the MSCI AC WI benchmark or other appropriate global equity benchmark by two to four per cent per annu.m, over rolling three to ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... of nearly 20 value-biased fund managers, only Grant Samuel Epoch stayed in the black, returning 1.2 per cent against the MSCI World equity index which lost 11 per cent during the same period. Epoch Investment Partners' US-based managing director in global ...

Lonsec approves iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... said. The approved rating extends to BGI's S&P Global 100, Russell 2000, S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, SmallCap 600, Europe 350, MSCI EAFE, MSCI Japan, MSCI Hong Kong and MSCI Singapore iShares. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets, MSCI Taiwan, MSCI South Korea ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... in much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity markets, as measured by the MSCI World Equity Index, have lost more than 36 per cent of their value. America's S&P 500 index has fallen by 35 percent since ...

HFs continue to outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... last month. The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index lost 4.85 per cent during September against the S&P 500 Total Return and MSCI World Equity indices which lost 8.91 per cent and 12.08 per cent respectively. Just last week, the Dow Jones index was down ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... largest point drop on record; the Nasdaq Composite Index slumped by 9.1 per cent -- the sharpest decline since April 2000. The MSCI World Index, which tracks the performance of 23 developed equity markets decreased by 6.9 per cent -- the biggest in 21 ...