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Ohio STRS warns of higher US recession risk; prioritises liquidity
9+ hour, 29+ min ago (1089+ words) Home > Asset Allocation The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio has warned of a "material" increase in US recession risk compared to last year as the fund braces for a wider, "negatively skewed" distribution of outcomes in the next 12 months....
PMT talks infra equity and how to balance concentration risk
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (893+ words) Home > Investor Profile Pensioenfonds Metaal & Techniek (PMT), the Netherlands" third largest pension fund, is battening down for a period of inflation. In the "86 billion ($97 billion) pension fund"s scenario analysis that stress tests the portfolio"s ability to withstand shifts…...
Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets" top brass are worried about
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1144+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer a portfolio talking point but quickly becoming the divide between private markets managers who will generate excess returns over the next decade and those who will not, according to senior executives from some of the…...
What a brief encounter with Elon Musk taught me about the limits of capitalism
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (868+ words) In 2013, on the sidelines of the Milken Conference at the Beverly Hilton, my friend and then-colleague Sean Scallan and I found ourselves in a seven-minute private conversation with Elon Musk." He was not yet the figure he is today. Tesla…...
What comes next for US-China relations
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1006+ words) Home > FIS 2026 at Harvard University Despite the seemingly cordial meeting between US and China leaders in May, Jake Sullivan, Harvard academic and former national security advisor to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration, believes it did little to address…...
Impact investing's case for scale
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1237+ words) Home > FIS 2026 at Harvard University Lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market mean that, despite years of growth, there are still significant challenges to impact investment achieving institutional scale. Impact investing has come…...
Blue Owl co-founder on doing fewer things better
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1131+ words) Home > FIS 2026 at Harvard University Blue Owl co-founder Doug Ostrover said the fast-growing alternatives shop won't expand "just for the sake of hubris" as it pursues market leadership through a tightly defined set of offerings. Ostrover, who is also co-chief…...
Assault on universities fracturing the "social compact" behind US growth
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1449+ words) Home > FIS 2026 at Harvard University The breakdown of a decades-old bargain between the US government and its research universities is threatening the engine that has driven American productivity and economic growth since the end of World War II, said Harvard…...
TPA to usher in clearer accountability at Cal PERS
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1035+ words) Home > FIS 2026 at Harvard University With Cal PERS, the largest US public pension fund, set to formally adopt the reference portfolio for its total portfolio approach next month, chief investment officer Stephen Gilmore is counting on the pivot to bring…...
Reports of America's decline greatly exaggerated: Kotkin
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1339+ words) Home > FIS 2026 at Harvard University Reports of America's decline as a geopolitical and economic power are exaggerated, and the noise investors should learn to ignore is the presidency itself, Stephen Kotkin told the Top1000funds. com Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Harvard. "America…...