FIS Singapore 2025-2
Investor Profile
Brunel links push into private markets to ‘innovative’ investment model
In the last seven years, the private markets allocation at the UK’s Brunel Pension Partnership has grown to £8 billion ($10.7 billion). The fund's head of private markets Richard Fanshawe charts that growth but warns of a dearth of opportunity in the UK and uncertainties in the transition ahead.
Sarah RundellApril 29, 2025
Equities
Malaysia’s Khazanah ramps up developed market bets
Malaysia's $34 billion Khazanah Nasional has been increasing its public and private equity exposure to developed markets for the past eight years. CIO Hisham Hamdan chats about the journey and the pivot away from the fund's traditionally emerging markets focus.
Darcy SongApril 22, 2025
Opinion
More funds consider TPA despite challenges
In January 2020, Roger Urwin laid down a call to action for asset owners and corporations to use the decade to drive greater wellbeing and wealth in the lives of their stakeholders. Now halfway through the decade, he reviews the state of play in this complicated picture.
Roger UrwinApril 17, 2025
Sustainability
LGPS Strathclyde invests more in impact; boasts highest funded level ever
LGPS Strathclyde, the £31 billion ($41 billion) pension fund for public sector employees in the Glasgow area is planning to increase its impact allocation to 7.5 per cent, after also celebrating its highest funded level ever.
Sarah RundellApril 17, 2025
Featured Story
Stable value at TRS proves ballast in extraordinary times
Texas Teacher Retirement System, the $211.6 billion Austin-based pension fund, has an asset allocation that is built to withstand the “extraordinary times” and adverse climate investors face today. The fund's 21 per cent allocation to stable value to stand the test of recession has proven most robust.
Sarah RundellApril 15, 2025
Opinion
Exploring the interconnectedness of biodiversity and climate change
Biodiversity loss is one of the top global risks in terms of its impact and likelihood, yet it is completely overshadowed by climate change and is not well understood. Anastassia Johnson, researcher at the Thinking Ahead Institute, explores the intersection of both issues and what investors should do about them.
Anastassia JohnsonApril 15, 2025
InFocus
Combating geopolitical and economic headwinds by going global in fixed income
Growing economic and geopolitical uncertainty, amidst volatile trade policies and turbulent foreign relations, requires asset owners to rethink their core fixed income allocation and take a more global view to beef up the resilience and robustness of their broader portfolio.
Leng OhlssonApril 14, 2025