An examination of issues affecting how, and if, institutions include digital — or tokenized — assets in their portfolios and what kind of changes might increase the investment structure’s appeal. 

During the holiday period, please enjoy compilations of our work from throughout the year. Today, find the last six CIO Special Coverage packages of 2025.
Find out more about CIO’s 2026 editorial coverage plans on our 2026 Editorial Calendar.

The regular CIO Alert will resume on January 6.

Technology, data collection and increasingly specialized strategies give institutional investors opportunities and challenges when managing and measuring portfolio and manager performance.

Examining what institutional investors are saying about their private market investments, the evolving asset classes and risk profiles in the different segments of the space and the industries that are driving investment growth.

Technology alone does not generate alpha, but artificial intelligence can inform the investment research process, while human analysts are better when ‘intangible’ information is involved.

Institutional investors are looking at exchange-trade funds, beyond short-term uses, as ETFs’ inherent liquidity, transparency, diversification and low cost make them a useful tool for portfolio management.

In highly concentrated markets, allocators are balancing risk and uncertainty as they manage, and take advantage of, ongoing volatility.