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Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... went up and the volatility index went up." Emerging markets gave no portfolio safety during the GFC, with MSCI Emerging Markets down 62% from October 2007 to February 2009. But over the same time period VIX short term futures on the S&P went up by 194% ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... debt negotiations "stalemate", the MSCI World Index fell by 0.6% last night. Due to the "deadlock", the MSCI Emerging Markets Index retreated by 0.4%. The "impasse" caused the Dow to lose 0.7% and the S&P 500 0.6%. Yup, grim reading. But if investors ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... size of $1000, will be passively managed and will track selected stocks from countries covered within the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. In a move designed to set it apart from simple index-tracking funds and ETFs, the Realindex Emerging Markets Fund will ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... Nine stocks gained for every one that fell in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index, which advanced 1 percent... The MSCI Emerging Markets Index gained 1 percent, its fifth advance. Benchmark stock indexes in Russia and South Africa jumped at least 1.4 percent." ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... markets' performance - have risen by 6.1 per cent this year compared with a 2.7 per cent decline in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. According to the report, "While emerging-market equities beat developed countries every year except 2008 in the past ...

Lazard targets instos with new EM fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... since 2008. The product was opened up to overseas investors in October. The fund is benchmarked against the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and will hold 60 to 90 stocks, with managers using a fundamental approach to stock selection and portfolio construction. ...

India funds in short supply

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... investors tend to favour taking a broader approach to emerging markets, citing the popularity of iShares MSCI emerging markets ETF, which has a 7 per cent allocation to India, and is more actively traded than the China-specific iShares FTSE/Xinhua China ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... percent...The MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed 1.3 percent, extending four consecutive weekly gains... The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rallied the most since June 21, climbing 2.1 percent to a three- month high." Europe's DJ Stoxx 600 index and the FTSE-100 ...

Oasis adds two groups and recovers FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... 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 traditional, transparent ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... 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 ING Australia, said ...