Asset Owner Insights

Global asset owners are proactively addressing a myriad of challenges as they strive to enhance operational efficiencies, create relevant investment strategies, implement effective risk management techniques and nurture talent.

BNY's iFlow "Mood" Index, tracking investor flows across equities and bonds, is trending up after hitting its lowest point since the pandemic, signaling a resilient U.S. economy in 2025. Across the globe, opportunities for growth are mixed but setting the stage for incoming governments to pursue pro-growth policies via private sector funding.

As growth in alternative investments continues, alternative investment managers face a new paradigm of opportunities and challenges. Explore how managers are evaluating the most effective way to adapt their operating models in order to best engage, service and scale in their next phase of growth.

Today, the public asset owner landscape is in a state of flux. Roles, objectives, investment strategies and operating models are all changing. Asset owners must and will radically transform. Those that succeed in breaking out of old patterns will play a new role in financial ecosystems and amplify the impact they can have on society more broadly.

The confluence of challenges impacting pension funds, endowments and other institutional portfolios offers a much-needed catalyst for change – both in mindset and processes – believes Dr. Ashby Monk, Executive and Research Director at Stanford University's Long-Term Investing Program.

U.S. Treasuries form the backbone of global financial markets and are a critical component of central bank reserve managers’ portfolios. It is widely recognised as a deep, liquid and safe asset, but the Treasury market is being transformed by changes in policy, regulation and structure.

Rohan Singh and Dr. Ashby Monk explore the topic of Innovation in March 2023's podcast, published in collaboration with Stanford Long-Term Investing. In this episode, Singh and Monk explore the major inflection point faced by Asset Owners amid unprecedented challenges in the global economy.