Zoé Robledo, general director of the IMSS, pointed out during the special session of the Financial Investment Commission, held in October 2021, that the Institute has taken firm steps in the process of diversifying its investments, a fact that strengthens the financial balance of the institution, for the benefit of the eligible population and its workers.
New investment strategies
In June 2020, the Technical Council requested to diversify the investment portfolio. Since then, this superior government body has promoted different proposals to improve investments, authorizing new financial instruments and investment mechanisms, which has allowed the institutional investment regime to be modernized in a short time.
The current IMSS administration began to materialize the expansion of the institutional investment regime, venturing into international equities (stocks and ETFs) through investment mandates, a strategy that was consolidated in May 2021, with the hiring of three new leaders and the increase of resources to the two already existing ones, with which an amount of 30,000 million pesos was allocated to said strategy.
“With these actions, executed by the Finance Directorate, the institute modernizes the investment regime of its reserves and Labor Fund, strengthens the diversification of its investment portfolios and its position among the largest and most important institutional investors in the country, in addition to consolidate the adoption of best practices in the management of investments and risks in the Mexican Institute of Social Security”, concludes the statement.
