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The Probability Desk — 2026-06-02: Funding the Buildout
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UAO Daily Video Brief — Jun 2: $26bn through the war
The five biggest Gulf sovereign funds deployed nearly $26bn in three months — faster than their five-year pace — even as the Iran war shut the Strait of Hormuz. In this brief: the headline number; the emerging-markets tilt at PIF and ADIA; and PIF's spend-and-prune quarter. Full brief: universalasse
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UAO Daily Video Brief — June 1: China's Split Signal
China's two May factory surveys point in opposite directions as Wall Street closes its best month of 2026 at a record and oil sits 20% off its peak. Three things for long-horizon allocators. Official China PMI stalls at 50.0 while the private survey jumps to 51.8 · S&P 500 closes May at 7,580 · Oil
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 29: The Ceiling of Stewardship
Meta's May 27 AGM defeated every shareholder proposal — the AI-data-governance measure topped out at ~27%, and even the world's largest fund couldn't move it. Three signals for universal owners: the stewardship ceiling, the proxy-season AI pattern, and AI debt concentrating in investment-grade credi
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The Probability Desk — 2026-05-29: The Reopening Trade
Transcript This is The Probability Desk, from Universal Asset Owners — base cases, tail risks, and second-order effects, for capital that thinks
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 28: Korea's pension votes home
Korea's NPS — the world's third-largest pension — votes today on lifting its domestic-equity target. Indonesia's INA discloses $4.2bn deployed with 30% in digital infrastructure. New York City stretches its pension timetable for a $5bn long-run cost. Chart: five mega-allocators tilting home in one y
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The Probability Desk — Scenario Video — May 27, 2026
A three-minute probability-weighted scenario video on a contested Strait of Hormuz — base case, upside and tail for long-horizon capital.
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 27: CalPERS tears down its silos
On July 1 CalPERS ($589.54bn) drops fixed asset-class buckets for a total portfolio approach — lifting its PE target to 17% and adding a new 8% private-credit bucket — three weeks after the Financial Stability Board's first dedicated private-credit warning. CalPERS adopts TPA · The FSB warns on priv
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 26: Sovereign capital becomes AI's banker
Sovereign wealth funds crossed $15tn in 2025 and the Gulf 7 drove 43% of all sovereign dealmaking — increasingly into AI and compute. Plus: Indonesia's INA joins the data-centre boom, and the Gulf spends into the dislocation. Sovereign capital crosses $15tn · Indonesia joins data centres · The Gulf
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 25: The long bond reprices everywhere
Long-dated government-bond yields hit multi-decade highs across the US, Japan, Germany, and the UK at once on a Middle East oil shock. Plus Europe's growth-down, inflation-up forecast and Bank Indonesia's surprise hike. Three things for the people who allocate long-horizon capital. Full brief: https
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 22: The Vote and the Default
Private-credit defaults hit a record 6% — and most of it is hiding in payment-in-kind. The Big Three split their stewardship for the 2026 proxy season. And the Fed reshuffles its risk ranking, with private credit jumping from 9th to 4th. The Risk Radar edition. Full brief: https://universalassetowne
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UAO Daily Video Brief — May 19 (full-length): NBIM Concedes Real Estate, Sovereigns Underwrite AI
A six-to-eight minute extended brief. Norway's $2.1T fund admits its real-estate strategy underperformed and pivots toward sectors AI is reshaping; PIF anchors a State Street Saudi equity ETF; Ontario Teachers halves its US-dollar exposure; FSB flags private-credit transparency; and 2026 h
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