In his first interview since leaving the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim said private investors needed to stop thinking of emerging markets as a ‘single risk pool’.
Standardisation may still be a work in progress but fund managers are already seeing positive outcomes from ESG initiatives, both in terms of social benefits and financial returns.
The new appointees are joining the Australian fund manager from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, CalSTRS, Enbridge and Veolia.
Private equity investors focus only on very simple negotiating points such as fees and structure, according to a survey by eFront.
As an astronaut at NASA, Garrett Reisman was part of a government agency taking big risks. Now a professor and senior advisor at Space X, he’s helping the private sector manage those risks.
Over the two months in which Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund had issued a request for proposals seeking a minority, woman-owned or disadvantaged business enterprise, it received only one response. Chicago-based JLC Infrastructure, which fulfilled the requirements of having at least three years’ experience managing institutional capital and $500 million of assets under management, will, as […]
The fund, currently sitting at around €6bn, lacks an official hard-cap, but has received market demand for as much as €12bn.
Peter Costello said partnerships with local investors, but also greater transparency on the part of sovereign funds is the way forward.
The government believes worsening borrowing conditions and lower traffic on the roads offered failed to attract investor interest.
The Melbourne-based fund manager claims to be ‘one of the first’ unlisted asset managers to publish emissions data for its assets and will set targets across its portfolio this year.
The asset class generated a 12.5% return and the allocation could be increased, CIO Claus Stampe tells us, despite recent local watchdog censure on infrastructure investments.
Private market returns including infrastructure dipped slightly for the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System but offset steeper losses suffered in a volatile year of public trading, the Canadian pension said in annual results published this week. Investments in private equity, real estate and infrastructure generated a combined 10.7 percent in 2018, down by nearly a […]
The placement agent and advisory firm is among the first to announce a new office opening as part of its Brexit contingency plans.
Investment managers need a plan for management of cyber attacks and personnel misbehavior, panelists at the Texas TRS conference said.
An academic paper says alternative credit could reduce the length and severity of economic downturns.