China

MSCI finally adds China to indices

MSCI’s long-awaited decision to include China’s A shares in its emerging markets and ACWI indices will affect more than $1.6 trillion in funds that track the MSCI Emerging Markets In

Amanda WhiteJune 21, 2017

Setting the sustainability agenda

Fiona Reynolds, managing director of PRI, on her view of COP22, what Trump means for sustainable investing, and the role of China in green finance.

Fiona ReynoldsNovember 30, 2016

Pricing geopolitical risk

Geopolitical risk is largely priced in to markets according to the John P. Birkelund ’52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University, Stephen Kotkin.

Amanda WhiteDecember 22, 2015

Frozen by the entanglement of risk

Equity prices in continental Europe and emerging markets, including China, are below fair value, and present an opportunity for investors, but the ‘entanglement of risk’ in current markets is making Brian Singer, partner and head of dynamical allocation strategies team, William Blair cautious. William Blair typically targets around 10 per cent volatility in its portfolios, […]

Amanda WhiteSeptember 4, 2015

Opinion

Long-termism, the problems with capitalism and other holiday reading

The holiday season is a good time to catch up on the reading you may have put off throughout the year. To make it easy for you here is a choice of articles that speak to some of the key themes for investors – long-termism, economic growth, climate risk and capitalism. Long-termism is one of […]

Amanda WhiteDecember 18, 2014

Uncategorised posts

Chinese SWFs need co-investors

China’s biggest sovereign wealth funds need, and want, co-investment opportunities in real assets and private equity and are open to new partnerships with international investors of the right credentials, and the longer term the partnership the better. This is the feedback of Michael Wadley, a specialist lawyer of Australian origin based in Shanghai, who runs […]

David RowleyMay 30, 2014

Asset Classes

MSCI finally adds China to indices

Opinion

Setting the sustainability agenda

FIS Digital – June 2020

Pricing geopolitical risk

Uncategorised posts

Frozen by the entanglement of risk

Opinion

Long-termism, the problems with capitalism and other holiday reading

Uncategorised posts

Chinese SWFs need co-investors

Local Pensions Partnership

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