Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System says its allocation to digital assets has become the best-performing investment in the fund’s history. The $6.3 billion pension plan first invested in blockchain infrastructure and digital assets through venture funds in 2019, and early distributions are now beginning to arrive.
The biggest paradigm shifts in technology history - the internet and cloud computing - both had common characteristics: an initial cycle of investment in infrastructure before the applications were delivered to consumers. the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard that artificial intelligence is unlikely to be any different.
The changing nature of volatility in financial markets and a more client-centric approach that allows allocations to be tailored is helping more institutions adopt a total portfolio approach (TPA) to investment management, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University has heard.
Public authorities need to develop regulatory frameworks that create incentives and provide policy support in order to attract long-term private capital for infrastructure needed for the ongoing energy transition, the Fiduciary investors Symposium at Stanford University has heard.
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Franklin Templeton Investments president Jenny Johnson told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that the big trends of demographics, digitisation and de-globalisation are creating plenty of opportunities for investors, and cautioned on major global geopolitical risks, specifically, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Once regarded as a black-box approach to supporting asset management, AI and machine learning is becoming increasingly effective and transparent, now more of a "crystal box" and a useful tool for stock-picking and explaining performance attribution to clients, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University has heard.
A higher interest rate environment, increasing divergence among major central banks, and geopolitical uncertainty are some of the major risks that top investment managers are bracing for in coming years, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University has heard.
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