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‘Real Momentum: Global Public Investors and the Real Assets Market’ is based on a survey of Global Public Investors (GPIs) representing over $4.6tn in assets under management. The findings reveal investors’ growing appetite for infrastructure and real estate, coinciding with the growing need for investment in such projects around the globe.
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The global economic recovery and upturn in equity markets boosted central bank, sovereign fund and public pension fund assets by $2.5tn in 2017 according to Global Public Investor. The $2.5tn surge, representing a 7.3% rise from 2016 to $36tn, is the largest such increase in the five years since OMFIF began tracking the assets under management of the 750 institutions covered in GPI 2018.
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For the first time, OMFIF is offering a comprehensive interactive online databank available as a practical resource for the reserves management and research departments of all global public investors, and their counterparts in the asset management and banking community. Users can filter five years of data by individual GPI, type of institution and region to chart changes in assets under management.
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June marks the anniversary of Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Perhaps paradoxically, the US retreat has provided impetus for others to advance the climate change agenda. Emmanuel Macron has stood out among world leaders in this respect since being elected to the French presidency a year ago. His answer to Trump's 'make America great again' motto is to 'make our planet great again'.
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The OMFIF Bulletin monthly review provides readers with a recap of the Meetings that took place over the past month and provides a sample of the forthcoming meetings in the next six months. The May Bulletin review covers meetings in Bucharest, London, Manila and Poland. To learn more about OMFIF Meetings and Membership, please email enquiries@omfif.org
Read moreFriday's agreement between Greece and its creditors on the features of their post-bail-out relationship should be welcomed by markets. In principle, this enables Greek and European governments to celebrate the 'clean exit' they sought. In practice, it is all but clean, write Vicky Pryce and Danae Kyriakopoulou.
'Sovereign funds and public pension funds are committed to real assets for the foreseeable future. Investments in real assets are unstoppable and here to stay,' said Alan Flanagan of BNY Mellon at the launch of the new report, 'Real Momentum: Global Public Investors and the Real Assets Market.'
Despite populist machinations in parts of Europe, its influence on global investing isn't limited to semi-regular political turmoil. Europe has the chance to benefit investors around the globe by improving investor protections and setting a new standard for the rest of the world to adopt, writes Jim McCaughan.
When greater numbers of women entered the workforce in the 1970s, they earned only 60% of a man's income, writes Suzanna Bishopric. Authorities assumed women would quickly achieve income equality. This has not happened, and pension systems have made no adjustment for women's different career paths.
Financial assistance to Greece is expected to come to an end after the country exits its third bailout programme in August. But the policies and reforms of the Greek government will remain under the creditors’ surveillance as the country looks to secure measures to ease its debt burden, said Danae Kyriakopoulou, OMFIF’s Chief Economist and Head of Research in a Bloomberg interview from Athens ahead of the Eurogroup meeting of euro area finance ministers on 21 June.
Initial coin offerings of cryptocurrencies provide an alternative source of venture capital for start-ups and encourage innovation in how digital tokens can be used. However, there is a lack of market security; 81% of ICOs are fraudulent, and only 8% of all cryptocurrencies make it on to exchanges, writes Bhavin Patel.
The euro is irreversible, but the composition of the countries in Europe's single currency is not. That was a central bittersweet message delivered to the audience at OMFIF's 18 June seminar in London commemorating the 20th anniversary of the European Central Bank's establishment on 1 June 1998.
Angela Merkel's weakness in Berlin is an unpleasant distraction as euro area countries prepare to announce measures to reinforce economic and monetary union. Squabbling in Merkel's fractious coalition could damage euro confidence and widen spreads between Italian and German bonds, writes David Marsh.
Lecture with Ian McCafferty, Member of the Bank of England's Policy Committee
Tue 26 Jun 2018
JUNE | 10:30
Briefing with Javier Guzmán Calafell, deputy governor, Banco de México
Wed 27 Jun 2018
JUNE | London
Roundtable discussion with Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia
Wed 27 Jun 2018
JUNE | Singapore
A Global Public Investor symposium on growing the market for sustainable finance
Tue 17 Jul 2018
POLICY
Asia Launch of the fifth annual GPI
Tue 17 Jul 2018
JULY | Singapore
Martin Moloney, Special Advisor on Regulatory Policy at the Central Bank of Ireland
Tue 11 Sep 2018
SEPTEMBER | London
The launch of the fifth annual 'Global Public Investor,' a publication devoted to public sector asset ownership and management around the world. Speakers included Louis de Montpellier of State Street Global Advisors, Joaquim Levy of the World Bank Group and Mario Marcel of the Banco Central do Chile
The world is experiencing one of the longest economic expansions since records began and there's no end in sight, with muted inflationary pressures keeping interest rates low. Stock markets like this not too hot, not too cold 'Goldilocks' backdrop.
Global infrastructure financing has fallen short of its potential.Private sector investment and institutional investor capital are often raised as possible solutions for filling the infrastructure funding gap.
Productivity and economic growth continue to disappoint in most countries. Although analysts show a great deal of concern for the so-called 'productivity puzzle', little attention is paid to the real solution: freer markets and increased competition.
Stock prices have been rising for more than eight years, but bull markets don't die of old age. There are few signs of the excessive growth, valuation or financial leverage that usually signal the approach of a bear market. With interest rates below inflation, it is unsurprising that money continues to flow into markets.
The poll for this month focuses on the future of bitcoin. Participants were asked: ‘Will the bitcoin market crash exponentially and if so, when?’
