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IFM Investors equities co-head departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... Australia," IFM said in a statement. "The small cap team [$1 billion in assets at April, 2019] Neil led has outperformed the benchmark by more than 4% per annum since inception in March 2012." Before joining IFM to start its small caps strategy, Carter ...

Investors turn to China-focused strategies

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... return on equity (ROE) below 10%," it said. "As a result, 56% of companies in the CSI 300 Index, China's market benchmark index, had a ROE of below 10%." Instead, MarketGrader recommends investors selectively pick companies using a "growth at a reasonable ...

Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... billion - equivalent to 10% of Indian GDP, on May 12. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also went to work, cutting its benchmark repo rate and the reverse repo rate by 75 bps each to 4.4% and 4.15%, respectively, while at the same time reducing the reserve ...

Prodigy boutique finds new strategic partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... S&P/ASX Small Ords Accumulation Index. The fund has had a good year, returning 2.7% in the 12 months to May end when its benchmark did -2.9%. Warakirri's move comes as it builds its presence outside of institutional investors, hires talent, and moves ...

Calls for index industry disruption

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... opting to self-index, and Morningstar launching the open indexes project. "The benefits of using a neutral third-party benchmark are clear: Independence matters when it comes to benchmarking," Lefkovitz said. "But what's important is choosing the most ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... well as various EM's response to the pandemic, have seen Eaton Vance shift to an underweight exposure in some of the benchmark's bigger constituents, he said. "Three months into the pandemic, it has become clearer which EM countries are rising to the ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... the 2015-16 Greek debt crisis. "The paper finds that during these recovery periods, equal weighting outperformed the benchmark market capitalisation index each time," VanEck said. "This was due to the skewed distribution of individual stock returns ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... time ago but it's only been three whole trading days (June 11) since Wall Street suffered a big fall - the day US benchmark equity indices closed sharply lower: Dow (6.9%), S&P 500 (5. 9%), Nasdaq (5.3%), Russell 2000 (7.6%). Financial market wire ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Wall Street is down! Repeat, Wall Street is down! At the close of last night's trading activity all US benchmark equity indices closed sharply lower: Dow (6.9%), S&P 500 (5. 9%), Nasdaq (5.3%), Russell 2000 (7.6%). Financial market wire and web ...

Global manager shuts fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... largest investor pulls out. The AXA IM Global Dynamic Equity Plus fund invested in global equities and was 3.06% under its benchmark MSCI World Index ($A, unhedged) after fees for the year ending April. The fund, which started in October 2018, returned ...