Losses recovered
GIC has fully recovered their declines in portfolio values occurred during the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis.

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Managing risks by investing a well-diversified portfolio

GIC manages risk by investing in a well-diversified portfolio, with a balanced distribution of asset classes and their underlying business sectors and geographies. This too is why GIC's performance has to be measured on the basis of its overall portfolio, rather than by how much it makes or loses on individual investments

• Achieve better returns for the portfolio – we invest in private market assets such as real estate and private equity which usually give better returns than bonds and public equities but are less liquid.
  
  
• Flexibility to adopt contrarian strategies in times of market euphoria or panic - such strategies would have been hazardous if we were concerned with short-term gains or losses.
  
  
• Ability to invest in assets offering higher returns such as emerging market equities but which are prone to short-term volatility.