In Focus
Swiss Institutional Symposium 2026
A curated one-day format for senior institutional asset owners: regulation, private markets, alternatives and the next generation of investment paradigms.
Latest Insights
- Private Markets
Microfinance for Swiss Institutional Investors: A Stabiliser for Fixed Income
Twenty years of index data show microfinance earning bond-like returns at 0.6% volatility. What the c-alm study means …
Private MarketsInfrastructure: Bond Substitute or Operating Business?
Infrastructure is Swiss pension funds' largest alternative. Why battery storage is an operating business, not a bond …
SustainabilityResponsible Investing Is Decided Asset Class by Asset Class
Swiss pension funds have adopted responsible investing. Where impact is realistic, asset class by asset class, and how …
- Pensions & Insurance
The World Is Discovering Funded Pensions. What Does That Mean for Institutionals?
From Washington to Berlin, The Hague and London, governments are expanding funded pensions. They are doing so in very different ways, however – and the real dispute is no longer whether retirement savings belong in capital markets, but who pays, who bears the risk and whom the capital should serve.
- Pensions & Insurance
The Total Portfolio Approach in a Swiss Setting
Large asset owners abroad have replaced fixed asset-class quotas with a single reference portfolio. For Swiss pension funds, the question is how the approach can be adapted to a framework in which the board is responsible for the investment strategy – with infrastructure as a practical test case.
- Macro & Geopolitics
Bonds Are Paying Again: Are we Facing a New Era of Fixed Income?
2026 has reset bond markets: US 10-year yields above 5%, Swiss yields near 0.5%. What research, PIMCO, KKR, DWS, BNP AM …
- Sustainability
Stewardship Is Not a Policy Document. It Is a Discipline.
Codes, directives and the BVG voting duty have made stewardship visible, not effective. What Swiss pension fund boards …
- Private Markets
Software Loans, Swiss Francs and the AI Credit Divide
AI is pressuring software loans while hyperscalers borrow in Swiss francs. What the split in technology credit means …
