Real estate is a popular exposure, but lags behind in performance satisfaction
Majority of investors have changed their voting policies this past year to address ESG risks
Institutional investors are turning to private equity
Assets held by central banks, sovereign funds and public pension funds rose by US$2.5 to $US36.2 trillion in 2017
Performance expectations driving institutional investors to apply ESG factors to smart beta strategies
New hire to drive the firm’s distribution efforts in the European institutional market
Increasingly, institutional investors are using non-market cap weighted ETFs
Addenda Capital, Greystone Managed Investments and Phillips, Hager & North lead institutional rankings
Three quarters of institutional investors surveyed reported that their hedge fund holdings met, or exceeded, their return expectations in 2017
Geopolitical risk surges to record high