| Singapore’s over $300 billion sovereign-wealth fund sees no end in sight for the era of low returns as anemic interest rates and sluggish growth weighed on one of the world’s biggest state funds.
“These difficult investment conditions can stretch for the next 10 years,” said Lim Chow Kiat, GIC Pte. Ltd.’s chief investment officer. The sovereign-wealth fund, charged with managing the country’s foreign-exchange reserves, said in its annual report that it earned a 3.7% annualized nominal rate of return over the past five years through the end of March. That compares with a 6.5% return for the five years through the end of March 2015...............................................Full Article: Source
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