GREG BRIGHT

Asset consultants have recently started offering medium-term asset allocation advice, often as a separately priced service. Watson Wyatt Worldwide calls it “dynamic strategic asset allocation”. Russell Investments calls it “enhanced asset allocation”. Whatever the term, the advice sits between tactical asset allocation at the short end and strategic asset allocation at the long.

A food company owned by the $65 billion Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a joint venture in Sudan as part of its strategy to generate profit and secure food supply by investing in overseas agricultural businesses.

The world needs to move back to a rules-based system of oversight over currencies and enhanced global surveillance of national macroeconomic policies, according to a leading Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, UK.

Another big bank is set to hive off its funds management business to shore up its balance sheet, with this week’s announcement of the proposed divestments by ING Group.

Institutional investors have never been market timers, but in this editorial, publisher of conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com, Greg Bright, argues maybe now is the time for pension plans to take a bet.