Universal Asset Owners

Briefings, research, charts and analysis on the institutions, capital flows and systemic risks shaping long-horizon portfolios.

Sovereign Wealth Funds

ADQ: Abu Dhabi's Third Sovereign Investor, Explained

The youngest and most domestically focused of Abu Dhabi's three sovereign investors — how ADQ was built, what it owns, and how the 2026 LIMAD restructuring changes it.

UAO Editorial · Jun 14, 2026
Institutional Investing

Factor Investing, Explained

The rules-based middle ground between passive indexing and active stock-picking, and why the world's largest allocators think in factors rather than asset classes.

UAO Editorial · Jun 14, 2026
Pension Funds

Pension Funded Status, Explained

How to read the single number that tells you whether a pension can pay what it owes — and why the same plan can show several funded ratios at once.

UAO Editorial · Jun 14, 2026
Pension Funds

The Discount Rate and Pension Liabilities, Explained

Why a single assumption — the discount rate — can swing a pension plan's reported liabilities by hundreds of billions, and how the post-2022 rate regime reshaped funded status.

UAO Editorial · Jun 14, 2026