Photo gallery: FIS Singapore 25
Delegates and speakers at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Singapore 2025.
How a 15-minute survey helped Singapore become an AI superpower
A decision by government-backed AI Singapore to rank organisations according to their awareness of and competency in AI before working with them has helped the nation become a global AI superpower, ranked behind only the US and China. The approach is also driving healthy ROI on AI projects.
The five factors aligning to support EM debt outperformance
Pictet Asset Management believes that declining emerging market policy rates and rising global trade will drive the performance of EM debt – and if the US dollar declines and local manufacturing rebounds, we could see a “super boom”.
Beyond the chaos, Trump’s unwitting role in a new equilibrium
Despite the apparent chaos and US President Donald Trump’s many idiosyncrasies – and those of the people he’s surrounded by – it does not signal that the US is declining in either power or influence, and a ‘new equilibrium’ will emerge, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore heard.
CDPQ balances equity gains with real estate woes
Equity and infrastructure drove gains at C$473 billion ($329 billion) Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, but “persistent headwinds” in real estate allocation given the fund’s above benchmark exposure to US offices in poorly performing cities New York and Chicago dragged down performance in 2024.
Inside NEST’s ‘serendipitous’ deal for IFM stake
NEST’s purchase of a 10 per cent stake in the Australian industry superannuation fund-owned IFM Investors marks the latest development in the trend of pension funds buying into the asset managers they’ve traditionally only allocated to.
