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Schroders expands active ETF suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... management." "The strategy has demonstrated strong long-term performance, consistently outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI World Index. We have generated returns consistently in 20 out of 25 years, delivering close to 1% outperformance (composite ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... various assets, indicates that due to the "extreme valuation" of US equities and their dominant 70% share of the MSCI World Index, investors in conventional global market cap indices shouldn't expect higher returns for taking on greater risk. This outlook ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... year-to-date. That, combined with the US accounting for 67% of the MSCI All Country Index (ACWI) and 70% of the MSCI World Index, has made him more cautious on the outlook. "We went into this year thinking the new Trump administration would be a mixture ...

Best ESG super options revealed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... league tables. It returned 8.7% over the three years to November 2024, and 24.4% over 12 months. Tracking the MSCI World Index, the option excludes nuclear energy and uranium, old growth forest logging, tobacco, weapons, and banks and new fossil fuel ...

TWC launches Global Wealth Creators Fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... wholesale and institutional investors. The actively managed fund aims to deliver annual returns of 3-4% above the MSCI World index, in a concentrated portfolio of 15-30 business across technology, communication services, industrial, health care, consumer ...

Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... holding in Elbit is less than 0.001% of total AUM - which is held in a passive equity strategy that replicates the MSCI World Index. Similarly, AustralianSuper has less than $150,000 sitting Elbit in a passive index investment. "To enhance member returns ...

Global small caps outperform Aussie counterparts: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... are trading on a multiple of 15.3x well below historical averages at the 31st percentile. Compare this to the MSCI World Index trading at 16.8x or the 83rd percentile," Apted said. "Australian smaller companies are in fact the most expensive sitting ...

Quality stocks outperform on average: Bell AM

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... has been limited to a small pool of names. "Only five names have accounted for 47% of the total return of the MSCI World Index this year," he said. "Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, those five have accounted for almost half of the total returns of ...

ASX red alert: Soaring negative cash flows raise concerns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
... Investment Management found 28% of ASX-listed companies have negative cash flow - more than any nation in the MSCI World index. Plato's head of long short strategies David Allen warned of the prevalence of negative operating cash flow in ASX-listed ...

NGS Super taps Robeco for major equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... provide persistent alpha from active strategies," Squires explained. The mandate's benchmark is an adjusted MSCI World Index, structured to take into account NGS's exclusions of tobacco, controversial weapons, nuclear and fossil fuel exposures ...
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