The investment choices of large asset owners such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and endowments, are, to a large extent ‘guided’ and pre-determined by the systematic use of old- fashioned indices or benchmarks designed by a small set of Anglo- American ‘index providers’ –...

In this primer published in the Feb. 2020 issue of Private Debt Investor (PDI), Nicolas J. Firzli, World Pensions Council, looks at how institutional asset owners will come to the fore in the new geo-economic context defined by renewed Sino-American "coopetition" across ASEAN countries,...

According to government estimates published earlier today, China’s economy expanded by 3.0% in 2022, far below the official growth rate of 5.5% initially targeted by Beijing – but still more than G20 average for the year, and, more importantly, higher than recent forecasts made by the IMF,...