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The Long Arc #2/2026: Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring Sovereign Funds in the Sovereign’s Policy Mandate

Sovereign funds remain part of the sovereign's wider financial condition even when operationally independent. This paper argues that the post-2008 governance settlement, while still essential, no longer captures the risk that now matters most: the systemic interaction of portfolio, fiscal, reserve, and external exposures under stress. It names this Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk (SSFR) and proposes Sovereign Resilience Management (SRM) as a diagnostic framework for addressing it.

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The Long Arc Series: Artificial Intelligence and Sovereign Capital: Why Sovereign Investors Must Now Confront the AI Question

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape how financial markets process information and allocate capital. Two recent papers from the Institute of Sovereign Investors offer an early practitioner framework for how institutions managing national savings and intergenerational wealth might navigate this shift.

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