Flight to safety versus fight for returns By Clive Horwood
The 2022 edition of OMFIF’s Global Public Pensions paints a clear and stark picture of the fundamentally changed investment challenges facing the world’s biggest asset owners. This report covers global public pension and sovereign funds with total assets of over $27tn. Most had a remarkable year in 2021, riding the wave of rising markets to post stellar returns. Assets at the top 100 pension funds rose by 17%. Assets at the leading 50 sovereign funds did even better, rising 23%, in part helped by inflows in commodity-rich nations.
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Debt default rates set to rise By Miroslav Singer The tightening of monetary policy coupled with the return of nominal interest rates to higher levels mean the factors that helped loan default figures fall to their historical minimum are not going to persist. Read the full commentary here. |
MEETINGS  Future of payments 2022 Thursday 8 December, Launch For the launch of OMFIF’s annual ‘Future of payments’ report, this event discusses the frictions involved in cross-border payments. The panel explores both the technical and regulatory changes necessary to make payments quicker, safer, cheaper and more accessible. Register to attend here. |
ON DEMAND  Christian Kopf on liquidity and volatility in the European SSA bond market Christian Kopf, head of fixed income at Union Investment, speaks to Burhan Khadbai, head of content at OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute, about the difficult market conditions European public sector borrowers face. Listen to the podcast here. |
LATEST REPORT Global Public Pensions 2022 The 2022 edition of OMFIF’s Global Public Pensions paints a clear and stark picture of the fundamentally changed investment challenges facing the world’s biggest asset owners. Read the report here. |
