‘The Hare and the Tortoise’, a well-known Aesop’s fable, does not have much in common with ‘An Imperial Message’, a less-well-known story from Franz Kafka, but combined they may tell us something about current reactions to the unsettling world which the global financial crisis has thrown investors into.
ESG index to launch on Shanghai exchange
In a sign that ESG issues are becoming a greater concern in China, the country’s first ESG index will launch this Friday as a joint venture between the main Shanghai exchange and an Italian research company.
Sovereign funds favouring Asian IPOs for next 3 months
Asian IPOs, core retail real estate and natural resource investments are the most favoured by the world’s sovereign wealth funds for the next three months, according to a ‘consensus demand meter’ produced by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute in the US.
Inside the pension crisis
Managing director for Rogerscasey and former CIO of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, Adam Tosh, looks at the pension challenges facing state and local governments.
CIC gets its money back from collapsed US cash trust
The China Investment Corporation has recovered all of its $5.3 billion invested in a US money market fund, the Primary Fund, which collapsed and suspended redemptions in 2008.
Climate change: addressing the major skeptic arguments
This paper by the Columbia Climate Center at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and commissioned by DB Climate Change Advisors, examines the claims being made about climate change science. It higlights the importance of understanding the science in the context of a climate change investment thesis.
