Asset owner caution helps soothe Covid-19 pain

May 14, 2020

Larger asset owners' caution early this year helped shield them from market drops, says a new survey. Sovereign wealth funds were largely spared too, but this could change.

Asset owner caution helps soothe Covid-19 pain

Institutional investors' defensiveness early in 2020 helped cushion them from the worst of the market impact of the coronavirus, and many have since sold fixed income securities to maintain overall equity positions, finds research released on Thursday (May 14) by the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFWSF) and State Street.

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