02.08.2013 - GIC seeks flexibility to tackle more complex investment outlook
GIC Pte, manager of more than $100 billion of Singapore’s reserves, is changing its investment strategy for the second time in three decades to be more flexible as the global outlook becomes “complicated.” GIC will split its portfolio into one that’s actively managed, and another that tracks the overall market, it said as its annual report showed returns were little changed. The company was set up in 1981 as a “contingency fund” with a portfolio that’s as much as 70 percent invested in bonds and cash, before a review in 2000 defined it as a “financial endowment,” which saw equities accounting for 65 percent of holdings, it said..................................Full Article: Source
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