Bank of Israel: integrating equities into the foreign exchange reserves

Recently a number of central banks, including the Bank of Israel (BOI), have started to add risky assets such as equities to the traditional investment assets. This chapter elaborates on BOI's motivations to add equities to its portfolio, describes the process of its move into investing in equity, and reports on the contribution of equity investment to its portfolio performances. This chapter also describes the BOI investment philosophy, which has guided its investment decisions in the process of moving into equity.