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FIS Oxford 2025

Why allocators need a ‘continuous exploration’ mindset for AI adoption

Asset owners are seeing a major shift in data management and analytics as AI enables more efficient investment processes. CPP Investments and OPTrust outline how the technology is being progressively integrated into their funds.
FIS Oxford 2025

Same attacks, more pain: Cyber security face up to exponential threats

Despite headlines about exponential escalation in the cyber attacks on governments and corporation, an expert says the core threats have remained largely unchanged in the past decade. What’s different now is the attackers’ ability to inflict pain on their targets.
FIS Oxford 2025

Allocators seek out new portfolio tools expecting higher inflation

Asset allocators are seeking new ways to optimise portfolios beyond using the historic mean variance tools in the face of higher and more volatile inflation expectations. That can mean moving from SAA to a TPA, which is often a challenging task, but a new context demands modern investment frameworks.
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APG private markets CIO articulates the value of being based in Asia

Dutch investor APG is showing its deep commitment to Asia by installing its chief investment officer of private markets in the Hong Kong office, a prime location from which to proactively source opportunities. The fund outlines its plan to increase allocation in infrastructure and private equity while integrating impact themes.
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Arguments for optimism: Why investors are looking on the bright side

When global asset owners gathered at London’s historic Rosewood Hotel to gauge market sentiment and explore investment strategies and ideas, the tone was remarkably upbeat in a conversation that spanned currency strategies, the muted impact of geopolitics on asset prices, and the importance of managing human bias.
Asset Owner Directory

The Asset Owner Directory is an interactive tool to give readers an insight into the world of global asset owners. It includes key information for the largest asset owners around the world such as key personnel, asset allocation and performance.

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Fordham University dials up growth equity, cools on private credit

Fordham University CIO Geeta Kapadia is cutting back on private credit, calling it an asset class “less able to financially engineer returns” in a higher-rate world. She’s instead redirecting the $1.1 billion endowment to venture and growth equity and entrusting larger mandates to a smaller roster of high-conviction managers.

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FIS Oxford 2025

Opportunities and pitfalls for LPs using AI in private markets

Asset owners have a wide selection of artificial intelligence tools that product providers tout as enhancements to their unlisted investment process, but leading private markets academic Ludovic Phalippou said the reality is not that simple. Not only can AI make mistakes, it can also be tricked.
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Fiduciary Investors Symposium

The global economy is increasingly bifurcated between the US, Europe and Asia and how the growth projections and geopolitical risks between these regions plays out is of increasing interest to asset owners. This event looks at the return and impact opportunities in the region, and the importance of Asia in the global economy.

March 24-25, 2026 | Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Fiduciary Investors Symposium

This event looks at the challenges long-term investors face in an environment of disruption including ongoing geopolitical risk and shifts in global economic dynamics. By accessing faculty of Harvard’s esteemed university, this event will leave investors empowered to tackle disruption in their portfolios and working lives.

June 1-3, 2026 | Harvard University, USA
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Resilience: Abdicating from transformational change?

Will the relentless pursuit of efficiency undermine our ability to build a resilient and sustainable future? Andrea Caloisi, a researcher at the Thinking Ahead Institute at WTW, explores how complex systems, driven by short-term optimisation, may be fuelling long-term fragility.
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The world in flux and Trump’s role in a new equilibrium

The second Trump administration has so far brought a lot of things: market shocks, volatile trade policies, and turbulent foreign relationships. But beyond the chaos, renowned geopolitics expert Stephen Kotkin says Trump has an unwitting role to help the world rebalance and reach a “new equilibrium” in the global order.

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Global Pension Transparency Benchmark
Global Pension Transparency Benchmark

Global pension funds lift transparency, but cost reporting still lags

Global asset owners have made significant advancements in the transparency of disclosures with the industry, showing unprecedented alignment with best practices in performance, responsible investing and governance disclosures. However, cost reporting continues to be a pain point.
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AP4: Why a dynamic, shorter term allocation is paying off

Volatile markets have provided a rich hunting ground and opportunistic best ideas have come thick and fast for AP4’s new five-pronged global allocation made up of systematic equity, currency and rates, asset allocation, hedge funds/external mandates and analysis. Magdalena Högberg explains the risks and opportunities of the best ideas allocation.
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FIS Oxford 2025

LP demands for bespoke solutions define new era for private managers

Private asset managers can expect to work harder for LP capital as allocators increasingly look for more bespoke, flexible structures that meet their changing needs around liquidity, fee and types of exposures. Investors at FIS Oxford unpack how they approach manager relationships in the new era of private investments. 
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Infrastructure

APG’s answer to aligning government and investment goals in infrastructure

An increasing push to invest in home markets means asset owners need better frameworks for aligning government expectations with investment goals. APG’s three-pronged approach for public infrastructure investments could act as a guide for other investors looking to balance fiduciary duty with political demands.