APAC equities’ 2025 rally has renewed interest, but Franklin Templeton’s Christy Tan says the case is now structural, driven by trade diversification and domestic growth.

Geopolitics and energy volatility will create divergence, so investors should favour targeted country allocations over broad regional exposure.

In the podcast with Top1000funds.com, Tan unpacks what this means for portfolio resilience and the region’s outlook.

Pension funds are navigating a more complex environment shaped by higher rates, inflation and shifting currency dynamics. In its latest World View paper, Canada’s IMCO warns of rising bond yields, concentration risks in passive investing, and the need to prepare for a weaker US dollar, with alternatives like the Swiss franc and yen gaining relevance.

Speaking to Amanda White on the Top1000funds.com podcast, IMCO chief strategist Nick Chamie said higher yields on risk-free assets are reshaping portfolio construction and the risk-return trade-off across markets.

In a conversation with Top1000funds.com editor Amanda White, Hamzaogullari unpacks the tenets of good genuine active management including a long-term structural approach and truly differentiated insights, which focuses on the quality of ideas not the quantity. 

For example, he says there will only be five to six companies which will benefit disproportionally from the AI trend while most of the other companies will struggle to sustain long-term growth. 

The Trump administration’s strikes on Iran stems from a deep conflict between the two nations which has existed for the past 47 years, according to Professor Stephen Kotkin, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

In this conversation, Top1000funds.com editor Amanda White spoke to James Clarke, global head of institutional capital at Blue Owl Capital, about the credit cycle, the evolution of private credit, data centre financing, and what institutional investors should expect from their managers.

In this conversation Top1000funds.com editor Amanda White speaks to Oregon State Treasurer, Elizabeth Steiner, about the future role and expectations of private equity, how a maturing of the asset class puts pressure on returns, and the private/ public asset mix in the fund’s four-yearly asset allocation review which has just begun.

The board of CalPERS has approved a momentous structural change that gives the $556 billion fund a single reference portfolio for judging performance, delegated authority to investment staff to construct the portfolio, and a simplified measure of success.

The fund’s chief investment officer, Stephen Gilmore, has been behind the fund’s shift to this approach which he says can add 50 to 60 basis points to portfolio returns.

In a long and detailed interview, Top1000funds.com editor Amanda White spoke to Gilmore about how a TPA mindset can add value, simplify accountability and open new opportunities for investments.

In this live recording from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, hosted by Top1000funds.com in Singapore in March 2025, Professor Kotkin unpacks what’s next for the US and the world

 In the midst of the great power rivalry between the US and China, “we need all the help we can get to carve out a future that works well for all of us” says Danny Quah, Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, in a talk examining the future of the global economy and the role of Asia. Listen here. 

Investors are currently facing the end of uncertainty around assumptions they have made for decades, and need to shore up their portfolios with greater inflation protection, more active management, and by fostering innovation, according to chief strategist at the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, Nick Chamie who spoke to Amanda White in the Fiduciary Investors Series podcast.