With SWF Assets, Confusion Reigns
Recent research by RGE Monitor and The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) argues that sovereign wealth funds, while still large, aren’t nearly as vast as others might think.
The Harvard endowment has been lambasted by critics for an illiquid
investment strategy and an overly ambitious infrastructure expansion
plan, but in possible signs of a turnaround at the world’s largest
university endowment, hiring has started once again.
With European regulators looking to tighten the alternative investment collar, UK pension funds – who now, more than ever, need the excess returns that alternatives are purported to provide – have stepped into the battle.