FIS Harvard 2025
This event looks at the challenges long-term investors face in an environment of disruption including ongoing geopolitical risk and shifts in global economic dynamics. By accessing faculty of Harvard’s esteemed university, this event will leave investors empowered to tackle disruption in their portfolios and working lives.
Despite uncertainties, Norges Bank is tipping that the US stock market will continue to outperform Europe in the next two decades. The mammoth fund also explained how it carved out a $90 billion pure alpha portfolio from passive investments, overseen only by 8 portfolio managers.
Amanda WhiteJune 4, 2025
The current versions of AI are helpful at the “partial automation” of tasks, but the last mile of training to reach “full automation” will come with a dramatic escalation of costs. For investors who want to place their capital most effectively, there are some ways to spot an AI winner.
Darcy SongJune 4, 2025
The second Trump administration has given investors plenty to worry about – tax changes, tariffs and diplomatic chaos among other concerns. But geopolitics expert Stephen Kotkin said the only real danger that will obliterate any portfolio is an US-China war.
Darcy SongJune 3, 2025
Policy uncertainty over issues such as US tariffs put investors in uncharted territory, but the Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that one guiding principle at such moments is not to make big, risky bets.
Darcy SongJune 3, 2025
Bridgewater's co-CIO Karen Karniol-Tambour warned that many investors have built up significant vulnerabilities in their portfolios over the past 15 years, in a period defined by steady growth and US exceptionalism. But the post-Liberation Day regime will be much less favourable for traditional portfolios.
Darcy SongJune 2, 2025
Denmark’s Velliv Association, the governance entity behind member-owned commercial pension fund Velliv, explained why a society where workers' mental health needs are looked after is better for pension funds and their liabilities.
Darcy SongJune 2, 2025
Pension fund members in retirement want the sustainability of pension payments. OPTrust chief investment officer James Davis told the Top1000Funds Fiduciary Investors Symposium that a total portfolio approach is the best way to do that, and has been on a journey towards delivering it for the past 10 years.
Simon HoyleMay 28, 2025