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Allocating Across a Fragmenting World
Reserve diversification, friend-shoring and a more fragmented order. The new map a universal owner has to allocate across.
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Stewardship at Scale: Can a Universal Owner Shape What It Owns?
If you own the whole market, you cannot sell your way out of a bad system. Can universal owners actually shape what they own?
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How Infrastructure Moved From the Alternatives Bucket to the Core
Inflation-linked, long-duration, and increasingly data-driven. Why asset owners are reclassifying infrastructure as a core holding.
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Demographics: The Most Predictable Force a Universal Owner Can't Diversify Away
Aging populations are a slow, certain force the universal owner cannot diversify away. What it does to liabilities, duration and returns.
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The Energy Transition Is an Allocation Problem, Not a Slogan
The transition is a multi-trillion-dollar capital-formation problem. For universal owners it is an allocation question, not a slogan.
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Private Markets Meet the Liquidity Question
Record dry powder, a backed-up distribution cycle, and the denominator effect. Private markets meet the liquidity question.
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What a Universal Owner Actually Owns When It Owns AI
Concentration risk on one side, a productivity regime change on the other. What a universal owner actually owns when it owns AI.
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Why the World Keeps Trying to Copy Canada's Pension Funds
Independent governance, in-house teams, and real assets. How CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers' built the template the world now copies.
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The $13-Trillion Question: How Sovereign Wealth Rewrote the Map of Global Capital
Sovereign funds now steward well over $13 trillion. The Gulf giants — PIF, ADIA, Mubadala, QIA — are rewiring the map of global capital.
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If You Own the Whole Market, What Exactly Is Your Job?
When you own a slice of the entire economy, beating the market is the wrong objective. The thesis that defines this audience.
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