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With Interest Rates Elevated, It’s Time for Fixed Income | Chief Investment Officer Investors are upping their allocations and focused largely on U.S.-based investments.

With Interest Rates Elevated, It’s Time for Fixed Income | Chief Investment Officer

Investors are upping their allocations and focused largely on U.S.-based investments.

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With Interest Rates Elevated, It’s Time for Fixed Income | Chief Investment Officer Investors are upping their allocations and focused largely on U.S.-based investments.

With Interest Rates Elevated, It’s Time for Fixed Income | Chief Investment Officer

Investors are upping their allocations and focused largely on U.S.-based investments.

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Could Retirement Finance Reform Reboot the European Economy? | Chief Investment Officer A solution answer may lie in rethinking pension finance—specifically, a major expansion of funded retirement solutions such as defined contribution workplace savings.

Could Retirement Finance Reform Reboot the European Economy? The Jasper Forum’s John Mitchem writes in an op-ed for CIO

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Legal & General to Sell 20% Stake in PRT Business to Meiji Yasuda | Chief Investment Officer In addition to the pension risk transfer stake, the Japanese insurer will acquire all of L&G’s U.S. protection business in a total $2.3 billion deal.

Legal & General will sell its U.S. insurance business, including a 20% stake in its pension risk transfer business to Meiji Yasuda

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Institutional Investors See Resilience in Commercial Real Estate | Chief Investment Officer While the industry is forever changed following the pandemic, portfolio managers expect a rebound ahead.

Institutional investors see a rebound ahead in commercial real estate | Chief Investment Officer

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Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish US Sovereign Wealth Fund | Chief Investment Officer The fund, about which there are few details, will be established by the Treasury and Commerce departments over the next 12 months.

Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish US Sovereign Wealth Fund

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UCSD Foundation Repeats as Best-Performing University Endowment in Fiscal 2024 | Chief Investment Officer Smaller, equity-heavy funds outpaced larger endowments with higher private market allocations during a boom year for artificial intelligence and tech stocks, per NEPC.

The University of California San Diego Foundation takes the spot for a second year in a row as the top performing university endowment with a 15.5% return, according to NEPC.

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BlackRock Exits Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative | Chief Investment Officer The $11.5 trillion asset manager leaves amidst an ongoing pushback against ESG investing.

BlackRock has exited the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, an organization of 325 signatories representing $57.5 trillion in assets under management committed to achieving net-zero targets by 2050

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Equity Strength May Come From More Than Just Mag 7 in 2025 | Chief Investment Officer Investors expect a stock rally to continue in 2025, fueled by deregulation and tax cuts, while watching policy closely.

Equity Strength May Come From More Than Just Mag 7 in 2025

Investors expect a stock rally to continue in 2025, fueled by deregulation and tax cuts, while watching policy closely.

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BlackRock Identifies 1% to 2% as Optimal Bitcoin Allocation | Chief Investment Officer Institutional adoption of the digital asset can dampen its volatility, according to a paper from the asset manager.

What is the optimal allocation to Bitcoin in a multi-asset portfolio? 1-2%, says BlackRock

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BlackRock More Than Doubles Private Credit Business With HPS Investment Partners Acquisition | Chief Investment Officer The deal to purchase the private credit manager for $12 billion will see BlackRock’s credit assets grow by $148 billion.

BlackRock will add $148 billion in assets through its announced acquisition of private credit manager HPS investment Partners

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Sweden’s AP7 Blacklists 2 Oil Producers | Chief Investment Officer The pension fund added MEG Energy from Canada and EOG Resources from the U.S. to its banned ledger of 110 companies.

Swedish pension fund AP7 ($100B+ AUM) added two oil producers to its exclusion list, for failing to make climate transition plans according to the Paris Agreement.

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Global Geopolitical Realignment Has Long-Term Investing Implications | Chief Investment Officer Investors are seeking safe havens and new geographic opportunities as the world becomes more fractured.

Global Geopolitical Realignment Has Long-Term Investing Implications | Chief Investment Officer

Investors are seeking safe havens and new geographic opportunities as the world becomes more fractured.

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