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Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... appear to be keeping equity markets afloat - the MSCI World Index is up 8.2% this year to date and the MSCI Emerging Market Index has gained 4.3% -- something tells me markets are not fully convinced. They remain on the defensive. What's that something? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... to 5,162.83 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 rose 2.89 per cent to 3,089.66 points. Swiss stocks surged with the Swiss Market Index closing up 5.02 per cent at 5,032.75 points, as banking shares led the charge. Spanish share prices closed up 3.56 per cent ...

No change to Korea, Taiwan status: MSCI

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... during the recent political turmoil, MSCI said. The index provider is not reviewing Egypt's membership of the emerging market index as it does not believe Egyptian stock market accessibility or investibility has been significantly impaired. Similarly ...

Korea and Taiwan may move to developed status

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Samsung." Series said the move would also increase the weighting of the Asia-Pacific region on the MSCI developed market index, which at the moment was about 6 per cent (ex-Japan). "It will lead to a structural rebalancing of investment portfolios towards ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... of rules to distil to the universe we are after," he said. "Constituents are drawn from the S&P Global BMI (Broad Market Index) and S&P Frontier BMI country indices for the relevant countries and must meet minimum market capitalisation, float-adjustment ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... for two Vanguard ETFs. The first is the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF which tracks the MSCI US Broad Market Index and holds the majority of the 3494 benchmark stocks at or very close to market weight. The second is the Vanguard All-World ...

AE large cap lagging index: Morningstar

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... first time in more than a decade that the average fund manager, irrespective of style, under-performed the broad market index. Trendless market turbulence meant stock selection was critical, said Morningstar in the report, resulting in quantitatively-based ...

Managed fund for charity pays dividends

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... scales up from here." The fund returned 14 per cent for the year to June, beating the Morningstar Multi-Sector Growth Market Index by more than 3 per cent. However, the fund has lost more than 6 per cent for the six months to June, underperforming the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open weaker on Friday after a fall on Wall Street overnight. Miners and energy stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil gained overnight. At 0806 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The broad Australian share market index at noon on Monday had pushed upwards through the 5,000-point barrier for the first time since the global financial crisis. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 33.4 points, or 0.68 per cent, at ...