US president Donald Trump has taken action to crack down on ESG investing, which has led to asset owners enaging in ‘greenhushing’ as they continue to invest in these assets

Aon’s defined contribution chief investment officer Jo Sharples tells AOX why government policy to encourgage larger pension funds may have negative side effects

Saudi Arabia’s $925bn Public Investment Fund has spent $5bn over five years on LIV Golf but now is pulling back. What does that say about the sovereign wealth fund’s investment strategy?

The asset manager has said the legal claim by the North East Scotland Pension Fund - which centres on investments in wind farms which lost 83 per cent - is based “entirely on hindsight”

The takeover of Warner Bros Discovery by Paramount, which is backed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, the Qatar Investment Authority and Abu Dhabi’s newest fund L’Imad, is a sign that Gulf sovereign wealth funds are not retreating

Consultants predict that excess insurer capacity, alongside fresh capital from three ownership changes in the first half of the year, will sustain intense competition and ensure buy-out record activity in 2026

The correlation between stocks and bonds has been positive since 2022 after decades of being negative. How should asset owners react to the seeming break-down of the traditional portfolio?

Oxford University has the largest endowment in Europe and it also bears the most resemblence to Ivy League funds, but what about the other large European endowment funds?

The state has benefitted from oil and gas production but New Mexico's fund - which is now the second-largest in the US - has also pivoted to the sectors which it hopes will drive its economy once fossil fuels dry up, and its growth changing the way the fund is run.

By some estimates, the amount of money insurers have pumped into private credit has more than doubled from $490bn in 2021 to $960bn in 2023. This, according to a recent paper, has had a “profound” impact on the asset class’s risk-return profile

Chris Redmond, global head of manager research at WTW, says consultants are taking a granular approach to understanding manager behaviours through a close evaluation of products, going under the hood to understand managers' particular strengths and their investment philosophies

Bank of England deputy governor Sarah Breeden, speaking at the FT’s Private Credit Connect conference, compared the problems within private credit to “lemons” and “sausages”

The UK has become one of the few countries where collective defined contribution pensions exist. How does the way it is approaching CDC compare to the approach taken in the Netherlands, where these funds have been common?

Uncertainty around the fixed income outlook has unsettled some asset owners. But those who have embraced active management have been able to weather market risks more effectively

The Irish pension system is entering a phase of consolidation, which is currently taking place organically. But experts predict this will not last long and the republic’s government will soon intervene to speed things up

The People’s Pension, which manages $54bn in assets, has recently made its policy on responsible investing less ambitious following an ‘in-depth review’

The Islamic finance market has grown by nearly 200 per cent in recent years, with growth in bond-like instruments now making it possible for pensions to provide more diversified options. But does that pose a concentration conundrum?

Investments in private equity by European institutional investors have remained broadly flat since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic but there are signs asset owners are looking at smaller scale opportunities

FTN, the Swedish fund selection agency, has removed one of its most popular global equity funds from its platform - a move which has triggered a court battle with the fund management company

Following the 2008 Icelandic banking collapse, the country’s pension system imposed a cap on foreign assets which is now gradually being lifted. We speak to Iceland’s largest open pension fund about it