Darcy Song

1 month ago | top1000funds.com | Darcy Song

Investors have plenty of reasons to be bullish about China’s financial markets in 2025, according to one of the country’s top economists, as tech stocks continue to rally and expectations grow that the central government will soon shift to a looser macroeconomic policy stance.

1 month ago | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Amanda White |Darcy Song

At a recent board meeting, trustees at Alaska’s sovereign wealth fund APFC garnered insights on governance from recent turmoil at PSERS’ and Ohio State Teachers. With the benefit of hindsight, the governance crisis at Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) that exploded in 2021 to catch everything in its path and result in criminal and regulatory investigations and legal fees running into millions of dollars, was painfully obvious.

Dec 5, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Amanda White |Simon Hoyle |Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song

Transparency is key to building trust according to executives at Norges Bank and the United Nations Staff Pension Fund. They discussed the benefits, and limitations of transparency at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the University of Oxford. The Government Pension Fund Global, the giant Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, achieved a perfect score of 100 in this year’s Global Pension Transparency Benchmark (GPTB).

Dec 5, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Simon Hoyle |Amanda White |Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song

Artificial intelligence continues to make inroads into the investment operations of major asset owners, but most are proceeding with a high degree of caution and setting clear boundaries around what the technology is and is not permitted to do, while resisting the temptation to allow AI to dictate organisational change.

Dec 3, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Leng Ohlsson |Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song |Jack SMith |Jack Smith

Global defence spending has jumped 18 per cent this year and is on track to reach as high as $3 trillion per annum by 2030, as the globe grapples with the largest number of active conflicts since World War II and a record number of forcibly displaced people. Governments are preparing for a decades-long battle for power that will impact trade, economic policy, and military and defence strategy, according to Simon Henry, managing director and portfolio manager at Wellington Management.