Spoilt Votes August 2011, The landscape of proxy voting at South African asset managers.
If you had the power to improve your situation just by raising a hand, would you nonetheless refuse to exercise this power no matter how bad things are, no matter how much better they could be? Read and download our latest research here. ...
IFC Press
IFC-SinCo reports US$125 billion in Sustainable Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has released the most comprehensive study to date of Sustainable Investment (SI) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The report is based on research by SinCo and RisCura including over 160 interviews of investors and advisors. DOWNLOAD THE...
LDI Press Release: Sustainable investment ‘taking hold in Africa’
RisCura launches new LDI Monitoring Service RisCura has launched a monthly monitoring service that uses the principles of liability-driven investment (LDI) to detail how the assets of a defined benefit pension fund are tracked versus its liabilities, and according to its investment strategy....
Sustainable Investment in sub-Saharan Africa
This is the 6th in a series of reports commissioned by the International Finance Corporation on sustainable investment in emerging economies, and the first with a specific focus on private equity. The report investigates the state and trajectory of sustainable investment in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, and provides recommendations to stimulate such...
Today’s Trustee: Back to Basics 6
WHOOPS! SO THAT’S HOW MUCH SHARE TRADES COST? They can make a big difference to fund performance. Jacobus Troveri, head of RisCura Transition, discusses the advantages of TCA....
RisCura South Africa Private Equity Performance Report
We are pleased to release the first version of the RisCura South African Private Equity Performance Report.This report tracks the performance of a representative basket of South African private equity funds and will be released quarterly on an ongoing basis.The purpose of the report is to provide stakeholders of South African private equity with more...
Catalyst: Revision to Reg 28 gives private equity a chance to prove its worth
In December 2010, the National Treasury issued a second take on the revised Regulation 28 of the Pensions Fund Act. Reg 28 sets prudential limits on the allocations that South African pension funds make to different asset classes and has historically restricted investment into unlisted equity to part of a 5% allocation with other alternative...
