Large investors with more than $1 billion allocated to hedge funds plan to maintain or increase their exposure in 2012, a Preqin study has found.
Divergent strategies have pride of place
About 20 per cent of an institutional investors’ hedge fund exposure should be allocated to “divergent” strategies, according to Rob Covino, senior vice president of SSARIS, which has been managing absolute return strategies for 30 years.
Growth in China wind and solar energy to slow
China’s 12th Five Year Plan sets out ambitious goals for de-carbonizing China’s electricity supply. The plan emphasises a large-scale expansion of renewable and low-carbon electricity energy sources.
CalSTRS boosts infrastructure exposure
The unique pension fund-owned structure of Industry Funds Management contributed to it winning a large infrastructure mandate from the $144.8 billion CalSTRS, whose risk-based view of the world has it looking for inflation-hedging diversification.
Climate risk disclosure project goes global
An original Australian pilot project to benchmark asset owners on their management of climate change risk will be expanded globally later in the year.
Should US investors have rights offshore?
US institutional investors are discouraged to diversify into offshore shares due to the outcome of a court case which restricts anti-fraud protection. The US case involving the purchase of shares in an Australian bank by Australian investors on an Australian stock exchange has important implications for US institutional investors and their drive to diversify investments … Read more
