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Future Fund: AI world order defined by US-China split will hurt capital owners
A geostrategic standoff between the US and China over AI would be “extremely damaging for capital owners” according to the Future Fund, Australia’s A$337 billion ($237 billion) sovereign wealth fund, which outlined four “secular scenarios” around AI and its investment implications.
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AP1 to up leverage, factor exposure
AP1 has its sights on broader, more efficient diversification, with plans to intensify its focus on derivatives and shake up its approach to hedge funds. We spoke to CIO, Mikael Angberg.
Cambridge hedge fund insight sells
Most of the outsourced CIO clients of Cambridge Associates have aggressive asset allocations, with a tilt towards alternatives and hedge funds. But do the high fees eat into the potential alpha?
Infrastructure investors need trust
Private investors seeking infrastructure opportunities must generate confidence that they’ll be good long-term stewards. The Better Infrastructure Initiative has 10 principles they can follow.
Strathclyde cuts equity allocation
The UK’s largest public pension fund is de-risking its successful equities portfolio and looking to private debt, emerging-market debt, global credit and UK infrastructure to fill the void.
Factors aid manager selection
Investors, including the $194 billion State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA), are using factor analysis to decompose returns, select active managers and negotiate fees.
Call for higher pension ages
The ratio of working years to retirement years should be at least 2 to 1 and raising the pension age is a universal fix for strained systems, the author of Mercer’s Global Pension Index says.
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