Following her landslide election victory earlier this year, Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi views the $1.8tn Government Pension Investment Fund as a tool to get the country’s economy moving by investing domestically

Across the world, governments are gently encouraging their pension funds to invest in their domestic economies to stimulate growth - a phenomenon referred to as ‘pensions nationalism’. Why is this happening, is it necessarily a bad thing and what, if anything, can reverse it?

Many of the biggest companies making news recently are backed by a sovereign wealth fund. This might give the impression these asset owners have a good track record of picking winners. Is that the case?

Many asset owners are investing in AI assets, but a recent conference demonstrated how many are spending money on integrating it into their processes

Many family offices are standing on the sidelines as AI stocks have helped push markets skyward - particularly in the US. Why are they so hesitant to get involved?

According to Alexandre Monnier at CitiGroup, the pendulum has swung "back a little bit" towards fund investments in part because direct investing requires “quite a bit of expertise”

Art, including filmmaking, publishing and painting, makes up about 10 per cent of Adeline Arts & Science’s portfolio but the family office says it has outperformed its other investments

Many of Japan’s pension funds adopt the same, somewhat ideosyncratic, investment approach as the $1.9tn Government Pension Investment Fund. This yielded strong results last year, so should other asset owners take note?

Upwards of two-thirds of large DB pension schemes are pursuing run-on strategies, but the preference is to use surplus funds to enhance member benefits

The British regulator, the FCA, is moving fast to bring tokenisation to the £16.5tn UK asset management sector. So what impact can this have?

Several index providers gave Elon Musk’s SpaceX fast track access to their indices, which raises the question of how much power these companies have over the market and what parallels can be drawn

The number of family offices in India has grown nearly sevenfold in recent years, and they are increasingly looking for direct private equity investment. But there are barriers to overcome.

As large institutional investors increasingly use AI to support investment strategies, family offices may turn to external partnerships due to limited in-house capabilities

Petra Hielkema, chair of the EU’s pensions regulator Eiopa, wants to address the fact that EU citizens collectively hold around $39tn in savings but around a third of this is sitting in bank deposits - and she hopes reforms to pan-European pension products will help

The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions - the body which sets and standardises global Shariah rules for financial institutions - is debating a new standard for sukuk which has put Middle Eastern family offices in a state of suspense

The Congressional Budget Office expects the US debt to GDP to rise to 120 per cent by 2036 from its current 101 per cent. Some asset owners have voiced concern about the long-term reliability of the dollar

Regulatory settings have nudged some of Australia’s largest superannuation funds into similar listed portfolios, so differentiation now happens in unlisted assets, where disclosures ranged from detailed to silent.

Asset managers are increasingly turning to AI to craft RFPs as institutional asset owners and consultants demand increasingly customised, data-driven, and time-sensitive responses, according to research by Cerulli Associates.

Greater diversity in AI-related exchange traded funds and closer engagement with the needs of private wealth clients could help managers compete in an increasingly crowded market, wealth management executives said at FundForum Monaco. Their comments came as industry leaders warned of relentless pressure on margins, given the wide availability of passive ETFs.

While insurers in the country won’t confirm a correlation between attendance and subsequent commitments, the timing suggests that investor conferences play an important role in the fundraising ecosystem for private equity firms seeking Taiwanese institutional capital.