How GIC stress-tests and diversifies its portfolio
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Angela Tan
Singapore
IN navigating an investment world plagued with low returns and heightened uncertainties, GIC stress- tests its portfolio across a range of plausible scenarios to ensure it is robust, a move which helped the investment fund protect Singapore's foreign reserve under its care against what it saw was significant market damage.
Jeffrey Jaensubhakij, GIC's group chief investment officer, shared with the media on Monday that GIC went into its last financial year with a fear that some risks in the global economies were rising and valuations over-stretched. It took a "pretty defensive stance" which helped cushion the portfolio when the Covid-19 pandemic hit this year.
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