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Concentration and dependence are two AI issues asset owners should fear
Stanford professor Andy Hall warns that concentration of ownership of AI models and a lack of control by governments over their development are two of the biggest issues that asset owners should be wary of.
‘Crazy thing’ to deny retail access to private markets: Blue Owl co-CEO
Blue Owl co-chief executive Marc Lipschultz has defended the manager’s push into the retail space, telling the Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium that “it’s kind of a crazy thing” to deny mum and dad investors access to illiquid assets like private credit when they are in a prime position to benefit from it through channels like 401(k).
Canada places $1.9 trillion pension pool at heart of global capital pitch
Canada will pitch the partnership with its mammoth pension pool as a key drawcard for global capital to invest in the nation, with Prime Minister Mark Carney set to host top brass from asset management giants at the inaugural Canada Investment Summit this week in the hopes of turning the country’s institutional maturity into an investment advantage.
CalPERS active equity rebuild delivers highest alpha in three decades
CalPERS’ three-and-a-half-year overhaul of its $242 billion global equities portfolio has delivered the program’s highest alpha in almost three decades, after the pension giant deployed $65 billion back into active strategies and dramatically tightened manager selection.
European investors reject debt crisis narrative as higher bond yields trigger fixed income shift
The rise in government bond yields is being driven by higher policy-rate expectations and commodity supply concerns linked to the Strait of Hormuz, not fears of an imminent sovereign debt reckoning. Investors share how they are preparing for higher returns.
European investors reject debt crisis narrative as higher bond yields trigger fixed income shift
The rise in government bond yields is being driven by higher policy-rate expectations and commodity supply concerns linked to the Strait of Hormuz, not fears of an imminent sovereign debt reckoning. Investors share how they are preparing for higher returns.
ART property boss: Investors were wrong to think real estate was easy
Australian Retirement Trust real estate head Mark Lee says the COVID downturn exposed that treating real estate as an easy asset class was a crucial mistake from investors, and property is not just a “bond replacement with a slightly higher yield”. As the A$20 billion portfolio prepares to double in five years, Lee says future returns will depend increasingly on investors’ ability to “sweat the assets”.
US endowment returns rocket on SpaceX windfall
Early venture bets on SpaceX have ballooned into major portfolio positions at some US university endowments, with new analysis estimating the aerospace firm contributed as much as 10.6 percentage points to annual returns. Michael Markov, founder of US quantitative researcher Markov Processes International, says the windfall is now creating a concentration risk that investors cannot ignore.
FIS 2026 at Stanford University