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BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... to the ESG Australian Bond Index Fund the two launched earlier this year. Benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-fossil fuels index, the iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund is designed to allow investors to ...

Parametric bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... risk management. Prior to AQR, he was a quantitative researcher at Citadel and a member of the factor model research team at MSCI Barra. Hood also joins Parametric from AQR, where he was lead researcher on risk parity portfolio risk models. He is an ...

MSCI adds former Aberdeen Standard distribution lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
The former head of distribution for Aberdeen Standard Investments has taken on a leadership role with MSCI. Simone Bouch is now head of Australia and New Zealand client coverage at the research and technology provider. She will be responsible for growing ...

Legg Mason launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... Investment Fund will embed positive ESG analysis alongside certain ethical restrictions. The fund aims to outperform the MSCI World ESG Leaders Index and to tap into the experience and expertise of Legg Mason's wholly-owned affiliate, QS Investors. QS ...

Multi-asset SMA launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... Resonant, Morton was a senior quantitative analyst at Colonial First State Global Asset Management and held senior roles at MSCI and Citi. Holder was a director and chief investment officer at family office Libero capital, and prior to that worked at ...

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... same year. Both developed and emerging equity markets have completely erased their 2018 three and half months into 2019. The MSCI world index has rallied by 11.9% this year to date, more than offsetting last year's 9.1% decline. Similarly, the MSCI ...

NZ Super dumps guns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... Framework required decisions about ethical exclusions to consider New Zealand law. NZ Super said the Guardians worked with MSCI ESG Research to identify companies captured under the new exclusion, and will divest $19 million of investments in: American ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... foreign-ownership caps on car ventures, and reduce tariffs on auto imports." But even better than better are latest reports that MSCI will raise the weighting of China A-shares in its indicempt s by raising the inclusion factor from the current 5% to ...

Global manager launches ESG strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... who moved into a portfolio manager role last year after eight years with Investec. The strategy will aim to outperform the MSCI Global Environment Custom gross of fees over five years and with a quantifiable carbon-saving impact. Fixed asset managed ...

Superannuation smashes gender diversity goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 3 FEB 2019
... increase of 41.1%. Interestingly, female representation in ASX-listed companies are not far behind. Latest research from MSCI shows more women joined Australian company boards in 2018. The proportion of women holding seats in Australia's boardrooms ...