6 December, 2010 - Dibanisa Fund Managers, the index tracking specialist in Old Mutual Investment Group SA (OMIGSA), has recently expanded its global tracking capabilities to include the popular MSCI Emerging Markets Index. More...
Financial Mail, 19 November, 2010 - Markets can be beaten, argue active fund managers. Passive managers take the stance that index-linked returns are safer. Addressing this polarisation, Robert Arnott, founder of US-based Research Affiliates, has developed an index based on determinants of a share's value — the Research Affiliates Fundamental index (RAFI), which it uses to manage US$60bn of assets in 35 countries. More...
FinFund, 18 November, 2010 - Old Mutual RAFI40 Tracker Fund has done phenomenally well relative to its actively managed peers – proving that the fundamental measures used in constructing the FTSE/JSE RAFI40 index provide tangible, long-term measures of a company’s importance in the economy. More...
Finweek, 18 November, 2010 - FUNDAMENTAL INDEXING is becoming increasingly popular with South African investors, with the RAF1 exchangetraded funds gaining traction. But there may also be some clues for stockpickers from those products. Whereas a traditional marketweighted index, such as the Satrix40, includes shares according to their size, the JSE/FTSE RAFI (short for research affiliates fundamental index) weights stocks according to a fixed set of investment criteria, such as cash flow, dividends, liquidity, book value and sales. More...
Business Report, 11 November, 2010 - We will consider pros and cons of the traditional asset-class and composite benchmarks used for measuring institutional portfolio performance in SA, as well as the emergence of alternatives to the traditional market capitaliaation-weighted indices. More...
Personal Finance, 3 July, 2010 (Article by Bruce Cameron) - Your choice of both actively managed unit trust investments and passive funds that track at index has never been wider. But choice is a double-edged sword. The advantage of tracker funds is that the risk of choosing an under-performing active manager is eliminated. More...
Personal Finance, 30 January, 2010 (Article by Bruce Cameron) - This week, the Raging Bull Awards celebrate the collective investment schemes that provided investors with superior performance over the past year. More...
It is amazing how much questionable propaganda and misleading information is still being put out by the financial services industry, while essential facts, particularly relating to risk, are withheld or obfuscated. More...
Old Mutual Global Index Trackers: first SA company to manage a NYSE listed exchange traded fund.
Dibanisa Fund Managers, previously Umbono Fund Managers, originated from the Umbono group, a company established in 1998.
Dibanisa Fund Managers is one of the largest tracker investment houses in Africa and specialises in equity and bond index tracking solutions.