The challenges inherent to the management of these public institutions have been analyzed, as their goal is other than maximizing profit. However, they may not overlook the impact of their measures on net worth, and must achieve some level of profitability to reinvest their earnings.
Another topic discussed was the difficulty in laying down appropriate regulatory frameworks for this type of institutions to account for the natural bias in terms of risk—because of long-term loans—and concentration—as they finance largescale investment projects—in their portfolio of assets. At the conference, speakers have also talked about the need to rethink the role of central banks given the challenges posed by the pandemic.