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Singapore varsities, schools have billions in endowment funds: What’s the playbook to grow the monies?

BT takes a peek into what goes on behind-the-scenes of managing these endowment funds

DBS now offers the Franklin Onchain US Dollar Short-Term Money Market Fund, in partnership with Franklin Templeton.

DBS, Franklin Templeton launch Singapore’s first tokenised retail fund

The fund is available to the bank’s wealth clients and accredited investors, with retail access expected in Q1 2026

Bonds have become more volatile and positively correlated with equities, reducing their effectiveness at cushioning multi-asset portfolios at times when equities come under pressure.

How to invest defensively amid volatility

Risks are now appearing from a more varied range of sources

S-Residence Najima is one of Samty's residential projects in Fukuoka, Japan.

Hillhouse-backed Samty sells 49 billion yen worth of Japan multi-family assets to sovereign wealth funds

The two portfolios comprise 30 newly built properties, most of which are located in Tokyo, Osaka and other major cities

The coordinated Democratic campaign comes more than three years after Republican politicians initiated their attacks against environmental, social and governance investing, calling it a threat to capitalism.

Democrats say retirement dollars at risk from GOP’s anti-ESG approach

[NEW YORK] Democratic state officials from New York to California sent letters to asset managers overseeing trillions of dollars in retirement funds, urging them to consider the long-term effects of f...

Investors are drawn to Singapore for its safe-haven status and steady yields.

Reits, institutional investors and funds in ‘buy mode’ as debt costs ease

Singapore’s investment activity is up 7% in the half year, with private volumes up 20%

Japan has a positive outlook for ESG investments through the rest of the year, supported by GPIF’s plans to continue to add green holdings and a push by the Tokyo Stock Exchange to overhaul corporate governance.

Japan’s US$1.7 trillion fund boosts ESG holdings as others flee

Nearly 15% of Government Pension Investment Fund’s equity investments have exposure to ESG-themed indexes as at end of March

The activity of the Nasdaq is defined by trading bands which impose both resistance and support barriers to the uptrend movement.
CHART VIEW

Make hay while the Trump shines

[SINGAPORE] The Trump trend is your friend until it isn’t. That sounds like a Taoist I-Ching tautology, but it’s not. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky knows what this means – investors are about...

Singaporean households now hold S$2.9 trillion in net worth, much of it sitting idle in cash.
INSIGHTS FROM CFA SOCIETY SINGAPORE

Opening the private-market door – gently

Why Singapore’s new long-term investment fund rules must walk the tightrope between access and assurance

Dennis Quah, head of Singapore wealth at BlackRock, says the strategy aims to give an investor "non-market-driven returns".

BlackRock launches absolute return fund for retail investors in Singapore and Hong Kong

The fund will focus on Asia-Pacific equities and undertake a long-short strategy, says executive (See Amendment note)