Major asset allocation review for $15b Thai fund
The $15 billion Thai Government Pension Fund is looking at a major asset allocation shift, having ridden out the financial crisis with a massive and fortuitous overweighting to bonds.
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A 22-year love affair transforms KIC
Everyone asks Scott Kalb, the chief investment officer for the $37 billion Korean Investment Corporation, how he got the job. Scott, as his name suggests, is not Korean. Well, it’s a long story.
Five big issues for all pension funds
The academic world has not really been attracted to the pension fund world as a field of study. Most academic research, by a wide margin, usually goes into the workings of the capital markets rather than the workings of the pension fund participants in those markets.
Coming out for gay and lesbian themes
With the return to favour of top-down equities management and renewed focus by pension funds on their asset allocation and beta exposures, there has consequently been a resurgence in thematic investment styles and products.
Sustainability among key industry’s tagged for China’s growth
It’s not very salubrious but it’s secure. The four-star Jingxi Hotel in Beijing (pictured), which is owned by the People’s Liberation Army, hosted the annual plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee to draft the country’s next five-year plan.
Asian equities no longer an asset class?
One of the ironies about the way big pension funds are rethinking their asset allocation strategies is that regional specialisation appears to be becoming less popular, even for the world’s fastest-growing region.
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