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US endowment returns rocket on SpaceX windfall

US endowment returns rocket on SpaceX windfall

Early venture bets on SpaceX have ballooned into major portfolio positions at some US university endowments, with new analysis estimating the aerospace firm contributed as much as 10.6 percentage points to annual returns. Michael Markov, founder of US quantitative researcher Markov Processes International, says the windfall is now creating a concentration risk that investors cannot ignore.

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How Denmark’s Industriens is exploring AI to overhaul risk analysis

Industriens, the DKK 217 billion ($30.6 billion) Danish pension fund, is using advanced technology and exploring AI models to bring sweeping advantages to its risk management processes. Julia Sommer Legaard, investment risk and data manager at the fund for the last year, explains the process behind the innovation.

CIOs’ predictions for 2024

In a year forecast to be volatile, and with the spectre of recession still very much on the cards, Top1000funds.com finds CIOs exploring new strategies, paring back on active equity, investing in technology and wrestling with the many disparate approaches to sustainability.

The best of 2023

In 2023, readers embraced our in-depth analysis and Investor Profiles as we continue our quest for a deeper understanding of institutional investment best practice and driving the industry to produce better outcomes for stakeholders. Below is a look at the most popular stories of 2023.

Helmsley meets new managers as it hunts for different strategies

Helmsley Charitable Trust is meeting new investment managers on the hunt for new exposures and allocations in the new economic regime. On the eve of her departure Rosalind Hewsenian explains how she approaches new manager relationships.

COP28: Transition ‘out’ is now transition ‘away’

After COP28 Tim Hodgson says the investment industry needs to decide whether the transition away from fossil fuels will be too little, too late or whether net zero by 2050, with all the associated transformational consequences, is possible. Either way the industry needs to “get really good at intertemporal risk management”.

At COP28, financial sector innovation bolsters headlines

COP28 in Dubai had all the ingredients for both decisive action and controversy, given the UAE's status as a significant fossil fuel producer. But importantly for this sector there was also financial innovation on display. FCLTGlobal’s Olivier Lebleu highlights some of the fund managers showing ingenuity at COP28.

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