周末大阅读:November 14 – 16, 2014

Sorry for a prolonged period of radio silence, everybody. There’s been a frenzy of activity down on the Avenue of Giants these past few weeks, and I’ve been a tad overwhelmed. Anyway, here’s some reading for your weekend!

- In-Sourcing:CalSTRS may soon be carryinga Canadian passport.

- Fast Cars:Bahrain’s Mumtalakat is loving itsinvestmentin McLaren. Especially the part where they get to drive the cars.

- ESG:Dutch PGGM continues to show a legit commitment to ESG; considers giving ESG staffa vetoover transactions... which I’m sure staff is thrilled about.

- Nano-violins:Hedge funds are apparentlyunder threatfrom the pension fund rethink. Here’s我的看法.

- New SWFs I:Mugabe hassignedZimbabwe’s sovereign wealth fund bill into law. This should be interesting.

- New SWFs II:Britain’s House of Lords isconsideringplans for a new SWF from shale gas revenues.

- SDFs:Italy’s Strategic Investment fundappearsto have been successful in attracting foreign capital, this time from Qatar, into Italian companies.

- Dip-lo-matic Im-mu-ni-ty:The Future Fund is defending its low tax bill with two words: “sovereign immunity” Must. Not. Link. To... ‘Has just been revoked!’ Sorry.

- QOTD:“The CIO... works for a group of trustees that resemblesa condo resident boardmore than an investment team.”

- Sock Puppet Time:OMERS Ventures backs AirBNB...for dogs.

- The Fee Machine:Apparentlydisclosing what GPs charge LPs will prevent GPs from making high returns. [Cough. 8ull$hit. Cough.]

- The Giants:“When you own 1.3 per cent of the world’s listed equities, there are different expectations.”Yeah, that is in fact true.

I’ll be back next week with some actual writing. Have a good one...