FIS Stanford 2024
FIS Stanford 2025
Real asset opportunities ‘are coming from everywhere’: Macquarie
While the US remains the most entrepreneurial economy, China might now be challenging its technology leadership, while demographics, deglobalisation, decarbonisation, and digitalisation are creating “massive opportunities” in almost every market, according to Macquarie Asset Management.
Lachlan MaddockOctober 6, 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
InFocus
Believing the hype around data centres
With digital infrastructure projects like hyperscale data centre facilities becoming bigger, more complex and more costly, Blue Owl’s Robert Hartog believes that investors should begin to take part in what he describes as a “generational market opportunity.”
Leng OhlssonSeptember 25, 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