Briefings, research, charts and analysis on the institutions, capital flows and systemic risks shaping long-horizon portfolios.
Institutional infrastructure investors benchmark returns against MSCI, Cambridge Associates, and Preqin indices. Core strategies yield 5–6% net annually; value-add and opportunistic approaches target higher returns with corresponding risk.
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is Malaysia's primary mandatory pension scheme for private-sector employees, administering retirement savings through employer and employee contributions. With assets exceeding RM900 billion, EPF operates as a quasi-sovereign wealth vehicle balancing member protect
Institutional investors face a complex hedge fund environment in 2025, where traditional performance benchmarks diverge sharply by strategy and manager vintage. Redemption activity and fee compression are reshaping capital flows.
Institutional investors assess private real estate through realized IRRs, cash-on-cash multiples, and benchmark comparisons. Long-term returns vary significantly by strategy, market cycle, and geographic exposure.
Net 17% of sovereign funds are trimming public stocks — plus June's jobs revisions and the German grid deal you can't diversify away from.
Major sovereign wealth funds navigated 2025 with mixed results, reflecting divergent equity-fixed income allocations and currency exposures. Institutional investors are reassessing long-term capital deployment amid persistent geopolitical risk.
Ten-year private equity performance data reveals divergent outcomes by vintage and fund type. Net returns have trended toward mid-teens IRRs, with significant dispersion across geographies and strategies.
Leading pension funds released 2025 returns showing mixed results across equity and fixed-income portfolios. Performance diverged based on geographic exposure, illiquids allocation, and currency hedging strategies.