Events
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FIS Stanford 2025
Condoleezza Rice: Globalisation’s borderless era is coming undone
Condoleezza Rice, the 66th US Secretary of State and current director of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, said the new world order will have several characteristics of which there are already signs: more protectionist trade policies, a redistribution of security burdens, and louder voices for those marginalised in globalisation.
Darcy SongOctober 14, 2025
FIS Stanford 2025
Investors unpack regime-based portfolio thinking
Funds are operating in an extraordinary environment, with Scott Chan, chief investment officer of CalSTRS, saying he has never witnessed so many “large shifts stacked on top of the other” in his investment career. Amid the change, investors are increasingly shifting to a scenario and regime-based asset allocation.
Darcy SongOctober 1, 2025
FIS Stanford 2025
AI investors face post-Moore’s Law reality
Mark Horowitz, a leading computer scientist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, has declared that Moore’s Law is “basically over”, which will have significant ramifications for artificial intelligence investors who are counting on more computing power to feed into more complex models.
Darcy SongOctober 1, 2025
FIS Stanford 2025
Public-private partnerships key to fixing US infrastructure
The size of the current infrastructure investment gap and the speed at which it is widening mean there is both a desire and a need for more public-private partnerships to unlock funding. Investors say that collaboration with local governments and raising public awareness of private investment benefits are crucial.
Darcy SongSeptember 29, 2025
FIS Stanford 2025
Federal backing vital for US innovation: Stanford president
Stanford president Jonathan Levin said the university’s top priority is maintaining the partnership with the federal government while safeguarding its operational freedom, as the institution balances financial reliance on Washington and political scrutiny from the Trump administration.
Darcy SongSeptember 29, 2025
FIS Stanford 2025
Debt beats equity in data centre boom as scarce capital lifts credit yields
Asset owners continue to weigh up the shifting risk-return attributes of the booming data centre sector including deal structures, refinancing, energy requirements, and the future of AI.
Brendan SwiftSeptember 25, 2025
FIS Stanford 2025
Why CalPERS doesn’t want to miss the climate revolution
If CalPERS had put more money into the Silicon Valley companies in its own backyard earlier it might be fully funded by now, jokes its sustainable investment head. But it won’t miss the same opportunities in climate investing.
Lachlan MaddockSeptember 25, 2025
