With the return to favour of top-down equities management and renewed focus by pension funds on their asset allocation and beta exposures, there has consequently been a resurgence in thematic investment styles and products.
Sustainability among key industry’s tagged for China’s growth
It’s not very salubrious but it’s secure. The four-star Jingxi Hotel in Beijing (pictured), which is owned by the People’s Liberation Army, hosted the annual plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee to draft the country’s next five-year plan.
Asian equities no longer an asset class?
One of the ironies about the way big pension funds are rethinking their asset allocation strategies is that regional specialisation appears to be becoming less popular, even for the world’s fastest-growing region.
CalPERS to finalise alternative asset classifications
CalPERS’s investment committee is expected to make a decision on its alternative asset classification at a November asset liability management workshop.
Investors must lift ESG reporting standards: MSCI
The nemesis of cap-weighted indexing turn attention to bonds
First he convinced some of us that cap-weighted indexing doesn’t work, now Rob Arnott, the founder of Research Affiliates, is back with more bombshells – that the equity risk premium, as we came to know it, is gone and not hurrying back; and that emerging market debt is “objectively a better credit risk” than US Treasuries, at a higher yield to boot.
