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No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... the other four-letter word, I'm not allowed to write that.) Because of the 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 ...

LG Super awards $150m global equity mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... global equity strategies have over five year track records, with the Five Oceans World Fund outperforming the MSCI World index by over 6% annualised since inception after fees.

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... to fill the 260 highest conviction positions across the 26 portfolios. There are 1500 possible choices in the MSCI World Index. Favourite stocks included Roche, which appeared in seven portfolios, tobacco maker Phillip Morris International, Nestle, Pfizer ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... starting to outperform those in the fast-growing BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index - the benchmark measure for developed equity markets' performance - have risen by 6.1 per cent this year compared with ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... ride in 2010 but most generally ended with positive performances. International equities, as measured by the MSCI World Index (in local currency terms), produced a 7.8 per cent gain in 2010. A summer lull in the United States and renewed concerns over ...

Ausbil Dexia signs ESG deal with CAER

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... construction process. According to Rainmaker Information, the $90 million fund slightly outperformed its benchmark, the MSCI World Index, in the year to 30 June, with a 5.5 per cent return. Adam Dixon, associate director of equities at Ausbil Dexia told ...

Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... world's top 2000 companies are located in Asia ex-Japan and yet it only accounts for less than 7 per cent of the MSCI World Index. Despite China's "spectacular" growth, Urquhart does not expect global financial markets to take their lead from the Shanghai ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... of fees (in US dollars). This contrasts with world stocks, which returned a lower 9.4 per cent (based on the MSCI World index) and world bonds, up 5.4 per cent (based on the Citigroup World bond index). The fund's correlation to world stocks and world ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... management (AUM), an increase of 5.7 per cent year-to-date. That outperformed the 3.7 per cent increase in the MSCI World Index over the same period, in US dollar terms, according to the report. But the popularity of ETFs may be coming at the expense ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... Airlines and Avon. The bottom line on the bottomlines? According to Bloomberg, "About 70 percent of companies in the MSCI World Index have reported better-than-projected profit so far in the second-quarter reporting season..." There was also good news ...