On October 6, 2026, Colombia’s Ministry of Finance issued Decree 1490 of 2026, in force from October 7, repealing a 30 percent aggregate ceiling on the foreign investments of the country’s mandatory private pension funds. The ceiling had been introduced by Decree 0369 only six months earlier, on April 7, with a phase-in that would have brought the funds’ foreign allocation down from nearly half of assets to 35 percent within three years and 30 percent within five, and a requirement that new contributions be directed to domestic assets in the meantime. The funds held COP 557 trillion, about US$172 billion, at the end of July, with 44.5 percent of it abroad. Reaching 30 percent would have required roughly US$25 billion to come home. No fund had yet filed the adjustment plan the rule required when the repeal was drafted, ahead of an October filing deadline.
The repeal was not merely a change of administration reversing a predecessor’s decision, although it was that too. It was accompanied by a technical memorandum from the ministry’s own regulatory unit, which modelled the funds’ efficient frontier and found that an unconstrained portfolio would hold roughly 41 percent of assets internationally with an expected return of 6.80 percent and a risk of 9.88 percent, while the 30 percent cap would lower expected return to 6.26 percent and raise risk to 10 percent. The memorandum concluded that the limit would cease to be an effective instrument for the public policy goals it was meant to serve. A government had, in effect, published the cost of its own prior policy. For anyone who advises on long-term portfolios, the numbers are a rare, official illustration of what a home-bias constraint does to a saver over a working life: on those figures, the difference compounds to roughly 16 percent of terminal wealth over 30 years.
Colombia’s reversal is the sharpest episode in a year in which the region’s pension rules moved on several axes at once. Peru’s legislature raised the statutory ceiling on foreign investment to 80 percent, and the central bank, which sets the operative limit, nudged it from 50 percent to 50.5 percent in February and to 51 percent in July. Chile’s pension regulator issued the final investment regime for the generational funds that will replace the multifondos on April 1, 2027, with alternatives caps ranging from 25 percent for the youngest cohorts to 5 percent for the oldest, a foreign limit of up to 80 percent, a per-manager limit of 3 percent, and a performance band against a benchmark. Mexico’s Afores remain subject to a long-standing 20 percent statutory limit on foreign securities even as their alternatives ceiling was lifted. This paper makes three arguments. First, the direction of travel for the region’s pension capital is set as much by decree as by markets, and decree risk is two-sided and permanent. Second, for global managers, the headroom created by looser limits is real but smaller and slower than headlines suggest, because operative limits lag legal ones and because the funds’ own allocations are often already near where the models say they should be. Third, for wealth managers and advisers, the institutional debate matters because it frames the conversation private clients are having about the same question: how much of a Latin American family’s long-term savings should sit outside the home market, and through which vehicles.
Six Months of a Cap: What Colombia Did, and Undid
Colombia’s mandatory private pension system, the RAIS, is managed by four administradoras under a legal framework built on Law 100 of 1993 and the consolidated financial regulation of Decree 2555 of 2010. For most of its history the regulation set foreign-investment limits by fund type: reported at 40 percent for the conservative fund, 60 percent for the moderate fund, 70 percent for the higher-risk fund and 40 percent for the programmed-withdrawal fund. Within those limits the administradoras built portfolios that, by early 2026, held close to half of total assets outside Colombia, a share that had risen steadily over a decade as the funds grew faster than the domestic market’s capacity to absorb them.
Decree 0369 of 2026, signed on April 7, added an aggregate constraint on top of the per-fund limits: no more than 30 percent of the four funds’ combined assets could be invested abroad, to be reached in stages, with 35 percent as the intermediate target at the end of the third year and 30 percent at the end of the fifth. During the transition, the decree required that new contributions be allocated to domestic assets, and it required each administradora to file an adjustment plan with the Superintendencia Financiera. At the time of signing, 48.8 percent of the funds’ managed assets were invested abroad. The arithmetic was stark. Against a system of COP 557 trillion, the gap between 44.5 percent and 30 percent is about COP 81 trillion, or US$25 billion at the exchange rates of the time, that would have had to be redirected into Colombian assets over five years.
The legal challenge came within days. On April 11, a foundation filed suit before the Consejo de Estado, the administrative high court, seeking to annul the decree. The industry association, Asofondos, made its case publicly on diversification grounds, and in parallel offered the state a dialogue on how the funds could support domestic financing without a mandatory ceiling. The case for the cap was the one that has been made for such limits elsewhere: that a system which collects mandatory contributions from a country’s workers should finance that country’s investment, and that nearly half of the retirement savings sitting abroad represented capital the domestic market could use.
Then the calendar did the rest. A new administration took office on August 7, 2026. On July 2 the incoming finance minister had already said publicly that the new government was reviewing several pension decrees, without naming this one. On September 7 the Superintendencia Financiera reported that no administradora had yet filed an adjustment plan, ahead of the October deadline. On September 9 the Unidad de Proyección Normativa y Estudios de Regulación Financiera, the URF, the ministry’s technical regulatory unit, issued a memorandum, and on September 10 the ministry published a draft decree to delete the three articles that Decree 0369 had added to the consolidated regulation. On October 6, Decree 1490 of 2026 was issued, in force from October 7, repealing the ceiling, the phase-in and the requirement that new contributions be invested domestically. The ministry’s statement said that limiting investments «can reduce returns and, over time, affect the value of those savings,» and noted that the repeal came before the cap had produced material effects. The decree cited Article 189 of the Constitution, the financial statute and Article 100 of Law 100, the same authorities under which the cap had been imposed: the executive may set, modify or repeal such limits by decree.
Two details of the chronology deserve emphasis because they recur across the region. The first is that the cap never bound. Between March 31 and July 31 the funds’ foreign share fell from 48.4 percent to 44.5 percent, not because the administradoras sold foreign assets but because the peso appreciated, shrinking the local-currency value of dollar holdings. In dollar terms, the funds’ U.S. dollar positions actually rose by about US$5.7 billion over the same period, to US$72.5 billion. A limit expressed as a share of local-currency assets moves with the exchange rate, which means that a currency rally can deliver compliance without a single trade, and a currency sell-off can deliver a breach the same way. The second detail is the speed. Six months from imposition to repeal is fast by any regulatory standard, and it was possible because both steps were taken by decree. The authority that allows a cap to be removed quickly is the same authority that allowed it to be imposed quickly. That symmetry is the central fact of regulatory risk for anyone whose business depends on where Latin American pension capital may go.
The Arithmetic of a Limit
The most unusual document in the Colombian episode is the regulatory unit’s memorandum of September 9. Governments rarely publish a quantified estimate of the cost of a policy they are in the process of reversing. This one did. Using a mean-variance framework on the funds’ asset universe, the unit estimated that an unconstrained portfolio would allocate 41.48 percent internationally and would carry an expected annual return of 6.80 percent with a risk of 9.88 percent. Constrained to 30 percent abroad, the same optimisation produced an expected return of 6.26 percent and a risk of 10 percent. The cap, in other words, lowered the expected return by 54 basis points a year while slightly raising volatility, which is the textbook signature of a constraint that removes a diversifying asset from the frontier.
Fifty-four basis points sounds modest. Over a pension horizon it is not. Compounded over 30 years, a 6.80 percent return produces roughly 16 percent more terminal wealth than a 6.26 percent return. For a saver who contributes for 40 years the gap is larger still. The memorandum’s figures are, of course, the output of a model with assumptions about expected returns and correlations that reasonable analysts could dispute, and the exact numbers matter less than the direction. The direction is consistent with decades of academic work on home bias: a mandatory ceiling on foreign assets is a constraint on the efficient frontier, and constraints on the efficient frontier have a cost that is paid by the member, not by the regulator.
Two nuances in the memorandum are easy to miss and important for managers. The first is that the model’s unconstrained optimum, 41.48 percent international, was below the funds’ actual foreign share of 44.5 percent in July and well below the 48.8 percent reported in April. On the government’s own numbers, the Colombian funds were not under-invested abroad before the cap and are not obviously under-invested now. The repeal restores freedom; it does not by itself imply a new wave of outflows. An outside legal expert interviewed after the repeal made the same point: removing the cap «does not mean they will necessarily invest more abroad,» and investing abroad does not necessarily generate higher returns in every period. The second nuance is that the model treats «international» as a single asset class. In practice the question for the administradoras is not simply how much to hold abroad but in what: listed equities and bonds, which dominate today, or private markets funds, which have grown as a share of foreign allocations across the region but remain subject to their own sub-limits and operational frictions.
There is a third lesson in the arithmetic that runs in the other direction. The argument for domestic investment requirements is not frivolous. A pension system that collects mandatory contributions from a country’s workers has a political claim on it, and the funds are often the only investors in the country with the scale and horizon to finance infrastructure, housing and long-dated corporate debt. The question is not whether pension funds should finance domestic development but whether a hard ceiling on foreign assets is the right instrument. Colombia’s experience suggests that a ceiling imposed by decree invites a legal challenge, a technical rebuttal and a political reversal, and that the administradoras’ own offer of dialogue on domestic financing, made while the cap was in force, was the more durable path. The same debate is under way, with different outcomes, in every other large pension system in the region.
Four Regimes, Four Directions
Latin America’s funded pension systems are the product of a single wave of reform, beginning with Chile in 1981 and followed by Peru, Colombia and Mexico in the 1990s, with Brazil’s closed-fund system developing along a separate track. They share a structure of mandatory or quasi-mandatory contributions managed by private administrators under quantitative investment limits. They do not share a direction of travel. In 2026 the four largest regimes moved on three different axes: how much may be invested abroad, how much may be invested in alternatives, and how much discretion the manager has relative to a benchmark.
Peru moved on the first axis, slowly. Law 32428, enacted in 2025, raised the statutory ceiling on the AFPs’ foreign investment from 50 percent to 80 percent. The statute, however, sets only the outer bound. The operative limit is set by the Banco Central de Reserva, which raised it from 50 percent to 50.5 percent effective February 1, 2026, adding roughly US$180 million of capacity against a system of about 111 billion soles, or US$33 billion, and then to 51 percent effective July 1 by circular. The central bank’s stated purpose was to «promote greater diversification» of the funds’ investments. The funds’ actual foreign share was 46.9 percent at the end of June, so the new limit is headroom rather than a trade; one administrator said publicly that it implied no immediate change in portfolios. The precedent is instructive: when the legal ceiling was raised from 30 percent to 50 percent in 2011, the operative limit took until 2018 to reach it. Seven years from statute to full effect is a reasonable planning assumption for anyone modelling Peruvian demand. The other defining feature of the Peruvian system is the series of extraordinary withdrawals authorised by Congress since the pandemic, seven at the last count, which have reduced the asset base and, in the words of one practitioner, «reduce accumulated savings and therefore the future pension.»
Chile moved on all three axes at once, through the most comprehensive redesign of a funded system in the region in a generation. Law 21.735, the 2025 pension reform, replaces the five multifondos with ten fondos generacionales, each tied to a cohort of members by age: an initial fund for members up to 35, eight intermediate funds in five-year bands, and a consolidation fund for those over 75. The Superintendencia de Pensiones issued the final investment regime on September 1, 2026, to take effect on April 1, 2027. Under it, the cap on growth assets starts at 95 percent for the youngest fund and declines with age. Alternatives are capped at between 25 percent and 5 percent of fund value by stage, with a sub-limit for private capital in the later stages. Foreign investment is permitted up to 80 percent of fund value, within limits set by the central bank. Exposure to any single issuer is limited to 3.5 percent, and to any single alternatives manager to 3 percent, with 60 percent of uncalled commitments counted against the limit. Performance is measured monthly against a benchmark over a rolling 36-month window, with permitted bands of 240 to 290 basis points a year depending on the fund, widened to 400 basis points for a transition period from April 2028 to March 2031.
The final text was more permissive than the July consultation draft, and the change came after an unusually public debate about alternatives. The draft had capped alternatives at 20 percent. The local head of a global alternatives industry association argued in the financial press that a 20 percent limit for the youngest fund «has no logic,» pointed to allocations of 45 to 55 percent at Canadian pension plans and 25 to 35 percent at U.S. plans, and warned that a tight benchmark in unhedged pesos would push administrators toward index-hugging rather than toward the illiquid assets that, over long horizons, «are more profitable and therefore also improve pensions.» The industry association asked the regulator to remove per-asset-class minimums, keep maximums and simplify benchmarks, on the grounds that a rigid design would push all administrators toward the same portfolio. The final regime raised the alternatives limits in the first three stages, removed the lower bound on alternatives and widened the bands. Not every concern was addressed: the benchmark remains, and the possibility that some international managers would decline the transfer terms proposed for fund interests was raised in the consultation and is not resolved in the final text.
Mexico sits in a different place on the map. The Afores’ limit on foreign securities has stood at 20 percent of assets for well over a decade, set in statute rather than by regulatory circular, and the debate about raising it is as old as the limit itself. What moved in Mexico in 2025 and 2026 was the other axis: the ceiling on structured and alternative instruments, which this series discussed in September. The result is a system that can allocate generously to alternatives but must find most of them at home or through locally listed vehicles, which is why the Mexican market for CKDs and CERPIs, the listed certificates through which the Afores access private capital, has developed as it has. Brazil’s closed pension funds, by a different route, face a ceiling on foreign assets of around 10 percent under the National Monetary Council’s investment rules for the segment, and the country’s pension capital remains overwhelmingly domestic.
Put the four side by side and the pattern is clear. On foreign allocation, Colombia went from a per-fund regime to a 30 percent aggregate cap and back; Peru is loosening by half a point at a time toward a distant 80 percent; Chile is consolidating at up to 80 percent; Mexico is fixed at 20 percent; Brazil at around 10 percent. On alternatives, Chile is raising limits for young cohorts; Mexico has raised them for all; Colombia and Peru operate within older sub-limits that were not the subject of this year’s changes. On discretion, Chile has introduced a benchmark-and-band framework that will shape manager behaviour at least as much as any ceiling. The common thread is that each of these parameters was set by a regulator, a central bank or a ministry, and each can be reset.
Why Caps Come and Go
The economic case against hard foreign-investment ceilings is well established and the Colombian memorandum restates it. The political case for them is also coherent, and it is worth stating neutrally, because it will return. A funded pension system is a mandatory saving scheme, and the capital it accumulates is the largest pool of long-term money in most Latin American economies. Governments of every orientation look at it. The arguments for keeping more of it at home are that the domestic capital market needs anchor investors, that infrastructure and housing require long-dated local-currency financing, and that a system which draws its contributions from domestic payrolls should not be indifferent to domestic investment. The arguments against are that the member’s pension depends on the risk-adjusted return, that a small domestic market cannot absorb a large and growing fund without distorting prices, that concentration in a single economy is the wrong risk for a retirement portfolio, and that captive demand for local assets, especially sovereign debt, weakens the discipline that markets impose on issuers.
What Colombia’s episode adds to that debate is a point about instruments rather than objectives. A hard aggregate ceiling, imposed by decree with a five-year phase-in, was challenged in court within four days, rebutted by the ministry’s own technical staff within five months and repealed within six. It never bound, because the exchange rate moved first. The alternative instruments, which other regimes have used, are structural: Chile’s generational design aligns risk with age rather than with geography; Mexico’s listed certificates create a domestic channel for private capital that the Afores can use without a foreign-asset argument; Peru’s central bank controls the pace of liberalisation through an operative limit it can move half a point at a time. Each of these shapes where pension capital goes without a cliff-edge rule that invites reversal.
For managers and advisers the practical implication is that regulatory risk in this market is two-sided and should be modelled as such. A limit can tighten as well as loosen, and the authority to do either sits with the executive or the central bank, not with the legislature alone. A fundraising plan that assumes the Colombian cap would be enforced would have been wrong within six months. A plan that assumes Peru’s 80 percent statutory ceiling is the relevant number for the next three years would be equally wrong in the other direction. The relevant number is always the operative limit, the actual allocation and the distance between them, and all three should be tracked by country and by fund.
What It Means for Global Managers Raising in the Region
Global private markets managers have treated Latin American pension funds as a core institutional channel for the better part of two decades, and the fundraising teams in Santiago, Lima, Bogotá and Mexico City know the limits by heart. This year’s changes alter the picture in four ways.
The first is headroom, which is real but smaller than headlines imply. In Colombia, the repeal removes a constraint that would have forced US$25 billion home, but the government’s own model places the optimal foreign share below the current one. The realistic effect is that the administradoras will continue to manage foreign exposure on the merits and that commitments to international private markets funds can be made without a five-year wind-down hanging over them. In Peru, the gap between the 51 percent operative limit and the 46.9 percent actual share is about four percentage points of a US$33 billion system, roughly US$1.3 billion of theoretical capacity, most of which the funds are unlikely to deploy immediately. In Chile, the move to 80 percent foreign and 25 percent alternatives for the youngest cohorts creates meaningful capacity over time, but the regime takes effect in April 2027 and the transitional bands run to 2031. In Mexico the foreign limit is unchanged.
The second is that the composition of demand is shifting from «how much abroad» to «what kind of alternatives.» Chile’s design is the clearest case: a 3 percent per-manager limit that counts 60 percent of uncalled commitments, a 3.5 percent issuer limit, stage-specific alternatives caps and a private capital sub-limit for older cohorts together describe a buyer that will want diversified exposure across many managers, moderate commitment sizes, and vehicles whose drawdown profile does not consume limit capacity before capital is deployed. Managers whose products are designed for large single tickets from a few anchor investors will find that the generational funds reward a different shape of offering. The consultation’s warning that some international managers might not accept the transfer terms proposed for fund interests is a reminder that the legal mechanics of how a fund interest is held and moved matter as much as the economics.
The third is the benchmark effect. Chile’s performance bands, 240 to 290 basis points a year against a benchmark measured over 36 months, with a 400 basis point allowance during the transition, will shape how administrators treat illiquid assets whose appraisal-based valuations move differently from listed markets. The concern voiced by the alternatives industry during the consultation, that a tight band in unhedged pesos would reward index-hugging, is not resolved by the wider final bands; it is softened. Managers presenting to Chilean funds in 2027 should expect questions about valuation frequency, benchmark tracking and currency that were less central under the multifondos.
The fourth is timing and the vintage. Peru’s history suggests that operative limits take years to reach statutory ceilings. Chile’s regime goes live in April 2027 and the funds will need time to rebalance ten cohort portfolios. Colombia’s funds have just regained certainty. The vintages that will benefit most from the region’s loosening are not the funds closing in late 2026 but those raising through 2027 and 2028, and managers who build their regional calendars around that window, with products shaped for many moderate commitments rather than a few large ones, will be better placed than those who read the headlines as a signal to raise now.
What It Means for Wealth Managers and Advisers in Latin America and the U.S. Offshore Market
Pension regulation is an institutional subject, but the debate it reflects is the same one that plays out across the desks of private banks, broker-dealers, multi-family offices and independent advisers serving Latin American families, whether those families are advised from Bogotá, Lima, Santiago and Mexico City or from Miami, New York and Madrid. The question in both cases is how much of a long-term portfolio should sit outside the home market, in what currency, and through what vehicles.
The Colombian memorandum gives advisers something they rarely have: a government-produced, publicly available illustration of the cost of a home-bias constraint, with numbers. Advisers who have spent years explaining to clients why a portfolio concentrated in a single economy and currency carries uncompensated risk can now point to a ministry of finance saying the same thing in its own model. The figures apply to a pension fund’s asset universe and should not be transposed directly to a family’s portfolio, but the logic is the same and the source is official. Used carefully, it is a teaching document.
The second implication concerns the relationship between institutional and private flows. When a pension system restricts foreign investment, or when its members’ confidence in the system is shaken by repeated withdrawals, the responsibility for diversified long-term saving shifts toward the household. Peru’s seven extraordinary withdrawals have reduced the mandatory pot and placed more of the retirement burden on private savings, and the question of what to do with withdrawn balances is now part of the advisory conversation in Lima. Colombia’s reform of 2024, upheld in most of its provisions by the Constitutional Court in August 2026 and effective from April 2027, redirects contributions up to a threshold into a public pillar, with roughly 45 percent of RAIS balances belonging to members in the transition regime; the private savings decision for those households becomes correspondingly more important. In each case the institutional change creates advisory demand, and the advisory demand is for exactly the kind of diversified, long-horizon, partly illiquid portfolio that the pension funds themselves are permitted to build.
The third implication is about access. Pension funds reach international private markets through commingled funds, co-investments and, in Mexico, locally listed certificates, with institutional minimums, negotiated terms and in-house operational teams. Private clients reach the same managers through two main routes. Alternative investment platforms give wealth managers access to a broad menu of funds through a single agreement, with digital subscriptions, capital call processing, consolidated reporting and education, and feeder funds have brought minimums down from several million dollars to the low hundreds of thousands. Fund structures were built for larger, more developed markets like the U.S. and Europe, and they work very well there. Many Latin American advisers and their clients operate in smaller markets, with smaller average allocations, assets held across several custodians and jurisdictions, and operating models built around securities that settle in a custody account. For some or all of a private markets allocation, a securitised note can be a practical route: an asset-backed note issued by a special purpose vehicle that holds the underlying fund and passes its performance through, carrying an ISIN and settling through Euroclear and Clearstream like any other security. Lynk Markets, a fintech infrastructure company built for private markets, works with this architecture through its Private ETNs, issued from Ireland, to simplify access for wealth managers and the clients they serve. Funds and asset-backed notes are two routes to the same destination, and which one fits depends on the client, the custodian and the size of the allocation. The point for this paper is that the institutional loosening described above and the private-wealth build-out run in parallel: the same managers, the same strategies, different plumbing.
The fourth implication is that private clients are not subject to the pension funds’ limits, and that this is an advantage to be used with discipline. A family office in Monterrey or São Paulo can hold 40 percent of its portfolio in international alternatives if its governance supports it, where the local pension fund cannot. The CAIA Florida panel in October put the wealth channel’s private markets penetration in Latin America at around 2 percent, rising to 15 to 20 percent among the most sophisticated investors, against roughly 30 percent for single-family offices in the region and 40 percent in the United States. The gap between what the region’s institutions are permitted and what its families actually hold is, for advisers, the opportunity. The lesson of Chile’s design is also worth borrowing: tie the allocation to the horizon. A generational fund for a 30-year-old may hold 25 percent in alternatives because the member will not draw on it for four decades. A family’s private markets allocation should be built on the same logic, with the liquidity of each vehicle matched to the family’s drawdown needs, rather than on a single figure applied across every account. None of this is a recommendation for any particular portfolio; the appropriate figure depends on each family’s circumstances and on the judgement of its advisers.
Questions for Managers, Advisers and Family Offices
The argument of this paper reduces to a set of questions that each participant can put to themselves.
For private markets managers raising in the region, ask whether the firm’s country models track the operative limit, the actual allocation and the distance between them, by fund, rather than the statutory ceiling. Ask whether the product shelf includes vehicles shaped for many moderate commitments under per-manager and issuer limits, and whether the fund’s legal terms on the transfer and custody of interests would be acceptable to a Chilean generational fund in 2027. Ask how the strategy’s valuation frequency and currency exposure will look against a 36-month benchmark band.
For private banks and broker-dealers, ask whether the institutional debate on foreign limits has been translated into client-facing material on diversification, and whether the Colombian memorandum’s numbers, used with appropriate caveats, could sharpen that material. Ask whether the firm’s private markets shelf reflects the horizon-based logic of the generational fund, with different liquidity profiles for different client ages and needs. Ask which access route, platform fund or securitised note, fits each segment of the book, and whether the operational model supports both.
For independent advisers and multi-family offices, ask whether clients in Peru and Colombia whose mandatory savings have been affected by withdrawals or by the 2024 reform have a plan for the private portion of their retirement. Ask whether the firm can explain, in plain language, why a 54 basis point difference in expected return matters over 30 years. Ask whether the family’s international allocation is the product of a deliberate decision about horizon and currency or of history.
For family offices, ask what share of the portfolio sits in international alternatives, how that compares with the limits applied to the country’s pension funds, and whether the difference reflects governance or drift. Ask whether the allocation to illiquid strategies is matched, vehicle by vehicle, to the family’s drawdown needs over the next decade. Ask whether the office is monitoring the regulatory calendar in its home jurisdiction, because the rules that govern institutional capital shape the market in which the family invests, even when they do not bind the family directly.
For everyone, ask one question of every allocation limit, whether it is written in a decree or in an investment policy statement: what does it cost, and who pays?
Colombia’s cap lasted six months. It was imposed by decree, challenged in court, rebutted by the ministry’s own analysts and repealed by decree, and it never bound because the currency moved first. It was also, for a brief period, a live illustration of the cost of a home-bias constraint, with the numbers published by the government that removed it. Across the region the same year brought Peru’s slow loosening, Chile’s redesign and Mexico’s unchanged foreign limit. For global managers the message is that regulatory risk runs in both directions and that the real capacity for international private markets will arrive gradually, through 2027 and 2028, in the shape of many moderate commitments. For advisers serving the region’s families, the message is simpler. The institutions have just had a public argument about how much long-term capital should sit outside the home market, and one government has put a number on what the wrong answer costs. The families those advisers serve are free to act on it.
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