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Page 21 of a financial report or white paper discussing investment strategies for sovereign wealth funds ('sovereigns'). The text analyzes the trade-offs between home market investment (internalisation) and geographic diversification, specifically mentioning economic conditions in Europe, Japan, the US, and India. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, indicating it was part of a document production for a congressional investigation.
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Home market investment allows for greater internalisation and reduced hedging costs
Given recent increases in the likelihood of outflows, figure 13 shows how sovereigns are growing their focus on home market allocations to reduce foreign currency exposure. While home market investment aligns to greater internalisation, it also grows correlations between sovereign portfolio performance and local economic performance. Since sovereign funding is also heavily dependent on the local market, sovereigns are at risk of increasing cashflow strains (from both investment returns and new funding) when the local economy underperforms.
Given recent increases in the likelihood of outflows, figure 13 shows how sovereigns are growing their focus on home market allocations to reduce foreign currency exposure. While home market investment aligns to greater internalisation, it also grows correlations between sovereign portfolio performance and local economic performance. Since sovereign funding is also heavily dependent on the local market, sovereigns are at risk of increasing cashflow strains (from both investment returns and new funding) when the local economy underperforms.
Sovereigns may need to revert to greater geographic diversification, at the cost of short-term returns
The combination of continuing home market tilts, along with a concentration in a small number of ‘safe havens’, threatens to squeeze allocations to markets that lack clear growth or stability attributes. As the granularity of geopolitical risk models increases, sovereigns are at risk of being overly selective in their geographic investments and becoming dependent on single markets within geographic regions.
However, many of the driving forces behind concentrated geographic allocations are unlikely to last. Interest rate disparity in developed markets is expected to reduce if European and Japanese quantitative tightening begins, suggesting that increased fixed income allocations to the US are tactical. Similarly, while growing emerging market allocations is a strategic initiative, India has been targeted due to its recent economic growth, relative to other major emerging markets.
While sovereigns are willing to be overweight individual countries to capture additional returns (either through short-term tactical allocations or greater internalisation), they may shift their focus back to managing risk across diverse geographic allocations, fulfilling their aim to make government reserves independent of local economic performance.
The combination of continuing home market tilts, along with a concentration in a small number of ‘safe havens’, threatens to squeeze allocations to markets that lack clear growth or stability attributes. As the granularity of geopolitical risk models increases, sovereigns are at risk of being overly selective in their geographic investments and becoming dependent on single markets within geographic regions.
However, many of the driving forces behind concentrated geographic allocations are unlikely to last. Interest rate disparity in developed markets is expected to reduce if European and Japanese quantitative tightening begins, suggesting that increased fixed income allocations to the US are tactical. Similarly, while growing emerging market allocations is a strategic initiative, India has been targeted due to its recent economic growth, relative to other major emerging markets.
While sovereigns are willing to be overweight individual countries to capture additional returns (either through short-term tactical allocations or greater internalisation), they may shift their focus back to managing risk across diverse geographic allocations, fulfilling their aim to make government reserves independent of local economic performance.
These is an inherent risk in overcommitting to individual markets.
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