A group of more than 250 institutional investors has damned individual country national policies, particularly highlighting inadequacies in the US, as preventing more private capital flowing into climate change-related investments. The collaborative stance comes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
Money managers snooker consultants: Ennis
Reflecting on 40 years in the investment industry, founder of Ennis Knupp & Associates and executive editor of the FAJ, Richard Ennis, tells Amanda White why the investment consulting industry is at risk of becoming a distribution arm for the money management industry.
Korea’s national fund steps on the gas with global shift
The $200 billion National Pension Fund of Korea, which like many Asian funds sailed through the global crisis virtually unscathed, is looking to reduce its big overweight to fixed interest in favour of international equities and other growth assets.
Mezzanine opportunities in real estate
Institutional investors could consider the issuance of new performing senior and mezzanine debt as a lower risk opportunity in real estate, according to a new paper, “Real estate debt – from crisis comes opportunity”.
Investing in inflation protection
This paper by Anand Iyer and Jennifer Bender from MSCI, acknowledges that the current tug-of-war between inflation and deflation has created considerable confusion for investors, and explores these characteristics of inflation-protected bonds to see if, and to what extent, they have contributed to portfolio diversification and provided investors with protection from inflation and deflation.
How emerging markets are taking over in cleantech
While the emerging world is often considered a problem for global attempts to control or reduce carbon emissions, from an investment perspective it looks as if these countries may be currently offering more and better opportunities.
