Trump Stands to Make Money From CFTC Campaign Supporting Predictive Markets
The president’s Truth Social plans to provide event contracts trading, while one of his sons has been hired by prediction market operator Kalshi.
Market Moves
Canada to Establish Sovereign Wealth Fund
The Canada Strong Fund will be seeded with $18.36 billion over the next three years, the country’s prime minister announced.
Dispersion Capture Ratio: A Framework for Measuring Institutional Performance
The new metric aims to measure implementation at the portfolio level.
Service Providers Rolling Out Tools Needed for Total Portfolio Approach
Private markets data are emerging as a blind spot for allocators seeking a holistic view of an entire portfolio, so products are being tailored to help.
World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Embeds AI Into Portfolio Management
Norway’s $2.1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global is using large language models to screen all of its investments.
As Oil Prices Surge, Iran Conflict Cools Investors’ Taste for Emerging Markets
The broad effect of the war is shifting investors who were more positive on emerging markets to more neutral.
Iran Conflict Expected to Fuel Inflation, Further Destabilize Market
Increased oil prices and other costs could affect rate policy decisions, although observers have not yet changed long-term forecasts.
Why ETFs Are Reshaping Investment Management
Some see exchange-traded funds’ steady growth as indicating sound structure may be more important than artificial intelligence innovations.
The Big Shift
How consolidation and other forces changing the asset management industry are affecting different categories of institutional asset allocators.
Princeton University Slashes Endowment’s Long-Term Return Assumption to 8%
Citing the economic and political climate and ‘steadily declining’ long-term returns among Ivy League peers, the school is shifting its investment strategy to focus from growth.
Quant Firms Boost Prediction Markets Trading Teams
Quantitative hedge funds are hiring staff to trade bets on sporting and political events, but winning the trust of institutional investors will be a big challenge.
As Private-Market Momentum Continues to Grow, Market Infrastructure Improvements Rise Too
Additional retail and retirement-plan demand are expected to broaden distribution of private markets, but they will also bring scrutiny and comparisons to public markets.
Geopolitical Volatility Defines Markets to Start 2026
Commodities rise; the dollar falls amidst deglobalization.
Expect Equity Markets to Broaden in 2026, Led by Small Caps, International
Both fiscal and monetary stimulus should boost earnings in the U.S. and abroad, with dollar weakness continuing to underpin international stocks.
CIO Webinar: Investment Outlook
Market experts Indrani De, of FTSE Russell; Rebecca Patterson, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and Rachel Ziemba, of Ziemba Insights; share forward-looking analysis of the forces that will shape the U.S. economy and on what they expect to drive markets in 2026.