Case Studies

Considerations In Establishing Specific, Dedicated Allocations to Emerging Markets Infrastructure and Private Equity By Rich Nuzum, CFA Executive Director, Investments & Global Chief Investment Strategist, Mercer

Some of the world’s largest, most sophisticated asset owners and fiduciaries (collectively “asset owners”) have established dedicated allocations to emerging markets infrastructure and/or private equity, as part of their strategic asset allocations or other means of deploying their risk budgets. This note is intended to help educate asset owners who…
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Hidden GEMS: Costs to Developing Countries of MDB’s not Democratizing investor access to the GEMs risk database

The majority of emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs), climate, SDG financing and investment needs (more so than advanced economies) finance by private capital at scale, during current and historic times, when the high perception of EMDC risk remains a binding constraint to attracting private capital at scale, compounded by…
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