FIS Oxford 2025
The Fiduciary Investors Symposium is a quarterly event for the senior investment professionals at large institutional investors around the globe. The audience comprises chief investment officers and other senior investment professionals from pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds from more than 20 countries.
Asset owners are seeing a major shift in data management and analytics as AI enables more efficient investment processes. CPP Investments and OPTrust outline how the technology is being progressively integrated into their funds.
Darcy SongNovember 21, 2025
Despite headlines about exponential escalation in the cyber attacks on governments and corporation, an expert says the core threats have remained largely unchanged in the past decade. What’s different now is the attackers’ ability to inflict pain on their targets.
Darcy SongNovember 21, 2025
Asset allocators are seeking new ways to optimise portfolios beyond using the historic mean variance tools in the face of higher and more volatile inflation expectations. That can mean moving from SAA to a TPA, which is often a challenging task, but a new context demands modern investment frameworks.
Darcy SongNovember 20, 2025
Ronald Wuijster, chief executive of APG Asset Management, argues that fragmented capital markets and risk aversion are crimping investment opportunities in Europe. But he still sees attractive deals in the quantum and biotechnology sectors.
Sarah RundellNovember 20, 2025
Sharply declining populations in Europe, as well as countries like South Korea and Japan, have dramatic implications for economic growth and investment opportunities. Investors at FIS Oxford were warned that as depopulation occurs in certain areas, highly skilled workers will leave, creating a loss of services and fuelling political instability.
Sarah RundellNovember 20, 2025
The global economy is running in a “paradigm vacuum” as the classical theories of marginal change, equilibrium and rational markets are breaking down. Amid the void, University of Oxford professor Eric Beinhocker said investors must seek new economic tools that reflect how the world actually works.
Darcy SongNovember 18, 2025
Asset owners have a wide selection of artificial intelligence tools that product providers tout as enhancements to their unlisted investment process, but leading private markets academic Ludovic Phalippou said the reality is not that simple. Not only can AI make mistakes, it can also be tricked.
Darcy SongNovember 18, 2025



