Investors need to start demanding that governments act with more fiscal discipline as ballooning debts on sovereign balance sheets around the world approach a breaking point, MFS Investments, one of the world’s oldest asset managers, said at FIS Singapore.
China’s $420 billion National Social Security Fund is scoping out technology-related investment opportunities in domestic equities, particularly the so-called “AI+” theme where artificial intelligence is married with traditional industries to enhance profitability, which has been gathering market and political momentum.
Donald Trump’s next appointee as the Federal Reserve chair will be a defining moment for global investors, potentially escalating current market caution into a widespread exit from US assets, warns leading Stanford economist and finance academic Ross Levine. He outlines how the choice would impact the US debt and currency.
APG Asset Management, Europe’s largest pension investor, is set to double its global infrastructure allocation in the next five years and is stepping up its push into infrastructure assets in the Asia Pacific with a focus on Australia, India and Southeast Asia and opportunistic investments in Japan and Korea.
Asia's growing investors, including university endowments and family offices, are hunting for returns in lower-middle market and asset-backed private credit. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, head of Asian clients at the $92 billion OCIO Cambridge Associates, Prabhat Ojha, talks manager selection and Asian allocators' rising appetite for alternatives.
Under strict ESG guidelines and pressure to closely engage with their investee companies, Dutch pension funds have developed an affinity for concentrated equity allocations with some owning as few as 65 stocks in their entire portfolio. But the Erasmus University flagged the diversification risk and higher volatility the strategy introduces.
Andrew Lo, finance professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, believes large language models can bridge the gap between fundamental and quantitative investing in a way that was unfathomable five or 10 years ago, and create ‘quantamental’ investment strategies which would bring together the best of both worlds.
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Fiduciary Investors Symposium 2026, Singapore