As ETFs expand in number, breadth and global reach, ETF sponsors face numerous challenges and opportunities, including creating greater efficiencies and adapting traditional operational models to accommodate increased trading frequency. This Vision Focus paper looks at how sponsors can best position themselves to thrive in this dynamic, competitive market.
Around the world, exchange traded funds (ETFs) are becoming an increasingly important component of institutional investors’ portfolios. In this Vision Focus paper, we examine ETFs, including regional differences and changing regulations, as well the growing number of institutional uses for them.
Leveraging State Street’s position as a market practitioner, this Vision paper examines the lack of a universal definition for sovereign wealth funds, the debate regarding transparency, and the impact these large and fast-growing institutional investors are likely to have on the capital markets.
In the latest move to demonstrate the same commitment to climate change it expects from its portfolio companies, CalSTRS has signed The Climate Registry, a leading voluntary greenhouse gas registry in North America. The $147 billion fund will report on its carbon footprint, which was dramatically reduced when it moved into its new building in 2009. (more…)
Chair of the investment council of the $70 billion State of New Jersey’s Division of Investment, Robert Grady, has called for a new asset allocation plan, pointing in particular to the fund’s cash position which sits at around 2.75 per cent. The fund has also been overweight its domestic equity allocation by about 6 per cent since the last target was set in March.
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Malaysia’s $130 billion Employees Provident Fund plans to expand its global Islamic bond program by about 50 per cent this year in a move which highlights some of the challenges faced by fiduciary investors at many of the world’s government-controlled funds.
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