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Conservative overweighting hinders world’s largest investor
An overweight allocation to domestic bonds has not helped the world’s largest investor in the June quarter, with a massive $42 billion shaved off the assets of the ¥116,802 billion ($1.37 trillion), Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF).
Equities sell down
To better manage downside risk, the second-largest UK local government pension scheme has a plan to gradually alter its equity allocation.
Quant modelling in private equity a sign of maturity
Managing director of Adveq, Peter Laib, believes private equity fund-of-fund portfolios need more analytical oversight and that diversification should be driven by the timing of capital in the market, not the number of funds. He spoke with Amanda White about the next phase of private equity as an asset class.
Funds “overreacting” to market volatility: MSCI
A global survey of asset owners shows they are increasingly being short-term in their focus and may be overreacting to the current market volatility, says Frank Nielsen, co-head of MSCI’s global applied research group.
That market’s got style: investing through cycles
Style investing remains a powerful tool in periods of market volatility and, in particular, style analysis reminds investors to be aware of the distinction between overall market risk and stock specific risk. Amanda White spoke with director of Style Research, Robert Schwob.
MSCI leaves out suspended A-shares
A handful of companies halted trading this week, prompting MSCI to drop plans to add them to its emerging markets index as it made the long-awaited inclusion of 229 China-listed stocks.
London investment think-tank
Investment professionals from pension funds, endowments and family offices in the UK and Europe were brought together for an investment think-tank with leading academics from London Business School and Cambridge University to discuss the latest investment thinking and application to institutional investors’ portfolios. The academics presented to the investors who then discussed the outtakes and
Canadian penchant for fewer, bigger funds hits Australia
The similarities between Canada and Australia are often remarked upon, and they could be about to extend to pension management if an ambitious plan for a ‘mega-merger’ among Australian state-based funds comes to fruition.
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