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Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... investors. In Australia this is reflected in the 96% correlation super fund returns have with the S&P/ASX securities market index, leading to a frustration that has culminated in indexing increase its market share to an all-time high. "We're investors ...

J.P. Morgan launches two wholesale funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... fund uses a "concentrated, high-conviction, value-orientated" strategy, and aims to outperform the MSCI Emerging Market Index. David Hallifax, head of Australia Funds, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said, "Our expansion into the wholesale market and the ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... is overvalued, that the S&P 500 is overbought, that US economic growth remains sub-par - the benchmark US equity market index continues to record break. This is because the US central bank's balance sheet continues to expand despite the US$10 billion ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... performance of emerging economies it would be wrong to tar them all with the same brush," Hepner said. The MSCI Emerging Market Index has underperformed its developed world counter-part by some 20 percentage points in 2013, with developing world currency ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... bonds) and depreciating emerging market currencies. The same holds true for emerging equity markets. The MSCI emerging market index has significantly under performed developed equities this year to date -- minus 3.9% versus plus 12.1%. Fears of the Fed ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... bottom plumbed on 9 March 2009. But over the same period, the Venezuela's SE General Index, the benchmark equity market index increased by an exponential 1,549.4% (more than a thousand fold). Yes, Venezuela. The home of the late President Hugo Chavez. ...

Upside from frontier markets untapped: Feriani

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... negativity, a lot more investment will find its way to a basket of frontier markets currently overlooked by emerging market index providers. That's the view of Dr Slim Feriani, chief executive officer of Advance Emerging Capital who argues that as long ...

Don't overlook South America as an EM: MFS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... potential, that should interest Australian institutional investors, said Roberge. Interestingly, while the Brazil Bovespa Market Index has risen 16% in the last year, its currency (the Real) has fallen relative to the AUD a corresponding amount. Investors ...

Vanguard makes index switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... affect Australian investors, Bowerman said. It will move from the current MSCI benchmark to the new CRSP US Total Market Index. The six Vanguard international index funds transitioning to FTSE represent aggregate assets of $170 billion and includes the ...

NZ Superannuation Fund excludes four firms from portfolio

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... companies around the world, and tracks global equity indices including the MSCI large-cap equity index, the MSCI emerging market index and the MSCI small-cap index. The portfolio is monitored for compliance with exclusions applied to the fund on a daily ...