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Korean Equities: Macro Recovery, Reform and AI
  • 17 hours ago

Korean equities rally on AI demand, export recovery, and reforms—despite volatility, long-term outlook remains strong.

Secondaries Unlocked: A Seller’s Perspective and Outlook
  • 17 hours ago

Key Takeaways Secondary transactions should not be passive clean-up exercises. As fiduciaries, Adams Street evaluates each potential sale to balance investor liquidity needs against long-term valu...

The Weekly Brief
  • 27 Apr 2026

The Bank of England (BoE) is in a challenging position as the UK economy battles with still-sticky inflation and questions around the growth outlook. Last week’s data showed headline inflation acce...

Responsible Investment Policy
  • 27 Apr 2026

Responsible investment (“RI”) encompasses the consideration of material factors often grouped into environmental, social, governance, and where relevant, impact/real world outcome considerations. W...

Stewardship Policy
  • 27 Apr 2026

StepStone recognizes the role that effective stewardship activities can play in private markets in maximizing risk-adjusted returns, particularly given the prevalence of influential ownership stake...

Climate Policy
  • 27 Apr 2026

StepStone seeks to integrate climate change considerations at all stages of our investment processes and throughout our internal operations. StepStone supports our clients in meeting their institut...

Nature and biodiversity data: types and uses for investors
  • 27 Apr 2026

A review of nature and biodiversity data types available to public market investors, mapped to portfolio objectives, with an assessment of current limitations.

Middle East Uncertainty Unlikely to Lift the Yen
  • 27 Apr 2026

[External Link] Kei Fujimoto, Senior Economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management, shared his views on the outlook for the Japanese yen amid Middle East geopolitical tensions. He discussed t...

Securitised and CLOs: Resilience, diversification and the case for active
  • 27 Apr 2026

Securitised credit has navigated recent market volatility with resilience. We explore the role of diversification, floating rate exposure and active management in today’s environment.