September 16-18 2025 | Stanford University, USA
FIS Stanford 2025
The Fiduciary Investors Symposium is a quarterly event for the senior investment professionals at large institutional investors around the globe. The audience comprises chief investment officers and other senior investment professionals from pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds from more than 20 countries.
Japan's Noritz Pension Fund combines active management with a large allocation to cash. CIO Kyoshi Iwashina opines on his frustrations with the asset management community, his concerns about ESG and the dangers inherent in comparisons between corporate pension funds.
Sarah RundellSeptember 5, 2024
Demographics is destiny, or so the saying goes. As populations grow, and as they move about, there will be investment opportunities that arise from their needs, their activity and their consumption. The trick for investors, however, is working out how long-term trends figure in generating shorter-term investment performance.
Simon HoyleSeptember 4, 2024
The $102 billion Danish pension fund, ATP, returned just 3 per cent in its return-seeking allocation in the first half of this year, buoyed by its foreign and Danish equity portfolios but pulled down by rising interest rates negatively impacting the large allocation to bonds.
Sarah RundellSeptember 3, 2024
As growing geopolitical tension and government control has caused some investors to exit China, Norway's $78 billion pension fund KLP has stepped up engagement with Chinese mining companies at risk of breaching labour rights and responsible extraction.
Sarah RundellSeptember 3, 2024
Sweden’s largest pension fund, the $126 billion Alecta, has spent much of the last year continuing to work on improving governance, risk management, competence and culture in the wake of a $2 billion loss in 2023 attributable to investments in US regional banks, including Silicon Valley Bank, turning sour.
Sarah RundellAugust 29, 2024
The UK’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves just returned from a trip to Toronto where was gleaning ideas from Maple 8 bosses on how to emulate a “Canadian style” pension model. But it will require a governance overhaul to create a Maple 8 in the UK.
Sarah RundellAugust 27, 2024