September 16-18 2025 | Stanford University, USA
FIS Stanford 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.
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
Norway's NBIM is looking to allocate several mandates to single-country and regional long/short equity strategies in Australia, Japan, Europe, and the US. Top1000funds.com examines the growing investor interest in these strategies as market volatility and stock dispersion create fresh opportunities for active managers.
Sarah RundellApril 28, 2025
With investment markets uncertain, being an investor with a global view and the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities has seen OPTrust “doing well”, its chief investment officer James Davis says. An evolution of its total portfolio approach keeps it focused on the key metric that matters to members.
Amanda WhiteApril 24, 2025
A new report published by the Border to Coast argues private equity fees and a lack of high-quality, UK-focused fund managers targeting the scale-up sector is impeding UK pension funds’ ability to invest in private equity.
Sarah RundellApril 24, 2025
As aggressive US “Liberation Day” tariffs weighed on China’s stock market, Beijing rallied its most reliable financial market troops to stop its domestic equities from nosediving. This is the “national team”, a term loosely used to refer to government-affiliated funds including SWFs and state investment arms.
Darcy SongApril 22, 2025
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