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Mid and small-caps outperform in 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
S&P Dow Jones Indices has released its annual SPIVA Australia Scorecard; a report measuring the performance of active funds against their respective benchmark indices - and mid and small-caps have come out on top. Surveying returns from 829 Australian ...

All Tech Index launches down under

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... the return from the new All Tech Index over the same period-if it had existed- would have been over 20 per cent." S&P Dow Jones Indices senior director of global equity indices, Michael Orzano, said he was excited by the new partnership. "We are excited ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... London's FTSE 100 dropped 1.6%, and Germany's Dax suffered a 1.7% blow. US benchmarks fell sharply too, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling for the fifth day straight, down 1.6% or 453.93 points on Monday. The S&P 500 also fell 1.6% ...

VanEck changes ETF portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... while also respecting their risk appetite and investment objectives. The portfolios have been changed, removing the SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate Fund. This has been replaced with the VanEck Vectors FTSE International Property (Hedged) ETF (ASX ...

VanEck changes tack on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... strategy. The VanEck Vectors S&P/ASX Franked Dividend ETF (ASX: FDIV) tracked an index that VanEck developed with S&P Dow Jones Indices. The index had 30 companies which paid fully-franked dividends over the past two years. FDIV charged 0.35% p.a. and ...

Facebook dropped from ESG index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... company in the S&P 500 ESG Index, demonstrating the significance of the decision to drop the social media giant. S&P Dow Jones Indices global head of ESG Reid Steadman explained the S&P 500 ESG Index ranks companies within their industry groups based ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... Government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump Campaign." The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 2% to 25,928 since the findings were released. On 8 March 2017, a few months after he was elected ...

Market cap funds disappoint investors: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... benchmarks in 2018 and recorded relatively poor performance compared to the prior year. This is according to the latest S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA Australia Scorecard, which showed nearly 87% of Australian equity funds could not beat their designated ...

S&P launches new ASX small caps index

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a new index for small cap stocks listed on the ASX as a part of a new index series. The new S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Select is a subset of the older S&P/ASX small ordinaries but will include only those companies that ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... about US$16.2 trillion of assets benchmarked against its indices - 81% is equity and the remainder in fixed income. S&P Dow Jones, also a major player in equity indices, has about US$13.7 trillion benchmarked. MSCI, which purely operates in equity indexing ...