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Perpetual Private awards $60m mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... programme, with an initial allocation of $60 million. The Osmosis Core Equity Fund targets a better risk-adjusted return than the MSCI World benchmark by identifying companies that are more resource efficient than their same sector peers, and therefore ...

India Avenue launches active ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... companies in India or generate most revenues in India and can be listed on other global exchanges. It aims to outperform the MSCI India Index (Net) measured in AUD over rolling five-year periods. India Avenue co-founder and managing director Mugunthan ...

Japanese asset manager enters Australian market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... returns. SMDAM's Global Strategy has achieved a gross return of 12.53% p.a. since inception in April 2015, compared to the MSCI World Benchmark of 9.96% p.a. Cumulative returns since inception amount to 216.10% for the portfolio gross of fees versus ...

ETF market dips but bright spots emerge

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... S&P 500 ETF (IVV) at $143.6 million. Rest of the fields on the top 10 were Betashares Global Shares ETF (BGBL); Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGS); Global X Physical Gold (GOLD); Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares (Hedged) ETF (VGAD) ...

Vanguard rejigs Ethically Conscious options

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
... Shares Fund and Vanguard Ethically Conscious International Shares Index Funds." Additionally, an update to the Bloomberg MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Exclusion Float Adjusted Index methodology will lead to changes in the Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... the pricing power of marquee companies. The firm said its portfolio's net return for January was 6.4% compared to the MSCI World AUD index, which was 2.4% for the month. Returns were broad-based, with a meaningful contribution from Richmond Amazon ...

Global active equity managers suffer their worst year in decades

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... with most managers struggling to meet benchmark returns. The median global active equity manager was left in the dust by the MSCI All Country World Index (MSCI ACWI) - which tracks large and mid-cap stocks across 47 developed and emerging markets - by ...

Schroders launches new active ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... have outperformed domestic equities over the longer term, certainly for the last decade. For example, the S&P 500 and the MSCI World have outperformed the S&P/ASX 200 by 8% and 3% per annum respectively over that period," Schroders Australia head of ...

New starter at GCQ Funds

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... the pricing-power of marquee companies. The firm said its portfolio's net return for January was 6.4% compared to the MSCI World AUD index, which was 2.4% for the month. Returns were broad-based, with a meaningful contribution from Richmond Amazon ...

ETF industry passes $250bn mark

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... by 35.9% or $79.9 billion. Vanguard made up three of the top 10 ETFs by market cap with its Australian Shares Index ETF, MSCI Index International Shares ETF and the US Total Market Shares Index ETF. Betashares had two with its Australia 200 ETF and Nasdaq ...