Kuwait’s Pension Fund Cuts Stocks in Shift to Infrastructure
- Fund allocating more toward infrastructure and private equity
- Director general sees investment opportunities in the U.S.
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Kuwait’s $124 billion pension fund is reducing its allocation to stocks in favor of alternatives like infrastructure and private equity, as it seeks to boost returns and cut a massive cash pile.
The new plan, developed with U.S.-based consultancy Mercer LLC, will start next year and will entail increasing infrastructure investments to 10% of its portfolio from 5%, “as well as fine tuning some of the other allocations,” Meshal Al-Othman, director general of the Public Institution for Social Security, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday.