FIS Stanford 2024
Technology
HESTA prepares AI investment framework for total fund clarity
The A$98 billion ($64 billion) Australian super fund HESTA is laying the groundwork for a more systematic framework for using AI across its total portfolio, solidifying use cases in research, forecasting, risk management and private assets that all centres on the objective of “seeing risks earlier and clearer”.
Darcy SongSeptember 15, 2025
Opinion
The efficiency trap
Will the relentless pursuit of efficiency undermine our ability to build a resilient and sustainable future? Andrea Caloisi, a researcher at the Thinking Ahead Institute at WTW, explores how complex systems, driven by short-term optimisation, may be fuelling long-term fragility.
Andrea CaloisiSeptember 8, 2025
Investor Profile
PFZW’s IC chair explains why cutting equity names hones impact
Professor Dirk Schoenmaker, investment committee chair of the €250 billion ($291 billion) Dutch healthcare pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), whose expertise has helped inform its "3D" investment strategy, explains why less is more in an equity allocation with fewer stocks.
Sarah RundellSeptember 4, 2025
News
CPP hires former AIMCo Singapore head to bolster TPA
After hiring former CalPERS' investment chief Ben Meng six months ago, Canadian pension giant CPP Investments has added another seasoned pension executive, Kevin Bong, to its investment team, in a sign that the C$732 billion ($530 billion) behemoth is staffing up to focus on alpha and enhance total portfolio management.
Darcy SongSeptember 4, 2025
News
ACERA eyes global, more active approach for $6.6b equity portfolio
The $13.2 billion Alameda County Employees’ Retirement Association fund is planning a major overhaul of its equity portfolio, shifting from a passive US-focused approach to a more global, actively-managed strategy in an effort to boost returns. The shift will result in manager terminations and searches.
Brendan SwiftSeptember 2, 2025
Organisational Design
Accountability, performance at the heart of Temasek’s three-way split
Singapore’s Temasek has unveiled its biggest organisational overhaul in more than a decade, splitting its investment portfolio into three entities to “sharpen” investment focus, boost accountability and align performance metrics. It came as the fund targets a 60/40 split between the “resilient” and “dynamic” assets to weatherproof its portfolio.
Darcy SongSeptember 2, 2025
Featured Story
NBIM divests firms linked to Gaza and West Bank crisis
Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has divested from US machinery manufacturer Caterpillar and five Israeli banks in its equity portfolio as it ratchets up pressure on firms contributing to rights violations in Palestinian territories.
Sarah RundellAugust 28, 2025