Trend towards foreign investments on the up

There has been a trend in the past year for large institutional investors in many places to reconsider the traditional home bias in their equity portfolios. And this trend is accelerating, says Theodore Niggli, London-based global head of indices at MSCI Barra, a risk software and index provider. "One big trend globally has been pension funds questioning whether they should have a home bias in their investments," he tells AsianInvestor during a visit to Hong Kong last week. "Accounti…