Public sector investor assets surge 7.3 percent to $36 trillion, biggest jump in 5 years | Reuters

Public sector investor assets surge 7.3 percent to $36 trillion, biggest jump in 5 years | Reuters:

"Public sector investor assets surged $2.5 trillion or 7.3 percent in 2017 to $36.2 trillion, the biggest jump in five years, an annual report showed on Wednesday, helped by stellar equity market gains and a gold price rise. The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) tracks the assets of 750 institutional investors such as central banks, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public sector pension funds and ranks them by size in its Global Public Investor report. In this year’s report, OMFIF noted that one-fifth of the $2.5 trillion rise was concentrated in four institutions - Norges Bank Investment Management, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the Swiss National Bank and Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund."



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