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ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... foreign flows. The country currently represents around 25% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and about 2% of the MSCI World Index. But the percentages could grow to 40% and 14% respectively when Yuan-denominated equities, or A-Shares, are included in ...

Lonsec returns PM CAPITAL fund to 'Recommended'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... achieved a total return of 209.4% since its inception in October 1998, which compares favourably against the MSCI World Index (Net Dividends Reinvested, AUD) total return of 46.9% (as at 30 November 2013). The Fund has returned 19.4% per annum over the ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... 16.8%this year to date. This compares with gains of 1.6% and 1.7% for the MSCI Emerging market index and the MSCI World index, respectively. The inflow of funds into the Philippine stock market had, no doubt, been boosted by the upgrade to its credit ...

Platinum reports stellar result

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... The strong performance contributed to the group's fiver-year performance figures of 10.4% versus 3.3% from the MSCI World Index and brings the investment company's annualised pre-tax return since its 1994 inception to 12.6% compared to 5.2% from the ...

PM Capital boosted by beer and Las Vegas property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... return over the 12 months to 31 July. The figure dwarfs the 44.5% return achieved by the fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index. The firm's latest success story has been a direct play on the US housing recovery. On discovering three-bedroom houses for ...

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... stocks, with limited additional tracking error and improved returns." Excluding the fossil energy stocks from the MSCI World Index over the last seven years (to the end of April 2013) would have boosted portfolios by 0.5% annually with only a modest ...

Environmental trends a boost for Impax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... coverage; there are just five analysts per stock in Impax's investment universe compared to 18 per stock in the MSCI World index. This means markets are less well understood and therefore the opportunities for finding price anomalies is increased.

Zenith rates Macquarie global fund as 'Recommended'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... Professional Series received a 'Recommended' rating from Zenith. The fund aims to reduce the volatility of the MSCI World index, while meeting or exceeding the return of the index. The fund, which began managing low volatility portfolios in 2004, follows ...

CFSGAM appoints CIO, infra analyst

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... its inception in June 2007 and it has outperformed its benchmark by cumulative 21%. It has also surpassed the MSCI World Index by 28%. Kohen was previously associate director of Access Capital Advisers, a specialist infrastructure management firm.

Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... 3-month low this month with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost 3.8% this year, compared with a 7% gain in the MSCI world index of developed-country stocks. Melendez said that as a consequence investors should not view emerging markets as a homogenous ...