The rise of sovereign wealth funds signals a shift in the balance of economic and financial power in the world, with fast-rising powers creating sovereign wealth funds to invest vast sums of relatively new-found wealth.
Opportunity Australia – 2011
High profile members of Australia’s financial services sector, senior political figures and offshore managers met last month in New York and London to discuss the risks and opportunities involved in entering Australia’s fast growing investment market. Australia’s ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley, was at key note speaker in New York and other speakers … Read more
Tips for looking under a manager’s kimono
Trouble-shooting consultant, Jim Ware, who has worked with the likes of Texas Teachers and Cornell University, gives his tips on selecting managers and as well as how to deal with the “investment” personality type, which makes up only 5 per cent of the population. UN fund increases indirect exposure
The $38 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) has begun to implement the recommendations of the Hewitt Ennis Knupp asset-liability study which, among other things, recommended higher allocations to indirect assets, emerging markets and private equity.
Investing for the long run
Long‐horizon investors have an edge. This paper argues to take advantage of the long-run investors should institutionalise contrarian behaviour by adopting a rebalancing rule, and redefining the concept of risk away from just volatility.
Public funds stick to aggressive targets
As US public pension funds grapple with the thorny question of what is an achievable rate of return, a survey of 126 public pension funds has revealed the median actuarial rate of return remains at 8 per cent.
