Apr 4, 2024 · As the assets under management in the Australian superannuation system continue to grow – now up to $3.7 trillion – and as populations around the world age, Australia’s compulsory savings regime is attracting global attention.. While it has its shortcomings – including the need to evolve from a primary focus on worker savings to …

May 6, 2024 · If you believe the critics, the private credit bubble is bound to burst any day now. However, asset owners are still bullish on its return potential and resilience. The Investment Magazine Private Credit Forum 2024 heard how investors can take advantage of an environment where opportunities and challenges co-exist for the asset class.

Oct 21, 2024 · In the past two years, the Future Fund has made around $70 billion worth of changes in the portfolio that its director of research and insights, Craig Thorburn, said can be traced back to stubbornly high inflation. As the fund executes its bias toward “owning inflation”, asset allocation around currencies, alternatives and bonds are all looking different.

Nov 11, 2024 · A so-called “golden age” of private credit shows no sign of coming to an end, as asset managers continue to fill gaps in a market vacated by traditional lenders, and asset owners become increasingly sophisticated about how they think about the asset class and how they access it.. The Investment Magazine Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that private credit remains attractive to super ...

Jan 14, 2025 · The Coalition is reportedly considering a proposal to reduce the superannuation guarantee to 9 per cent if it wins the election. Many in the industry would understandably view any such move as a partisan effort to weaken the system, but they must also be open-minded about the evidence and accept that improving quality of service is the best response to critics.

Jan 23, 2024 · The Future Fund reduced its cash component by 2.8 per cent in the 2023 calendar year, redeploying the assets to floating rate credit investments and public equity markets as it attempts to shake off criticism of its performance. But the $212 billion sovereign wealth fund still maintains a reasonably bearish outlook, warning of “questionable” equity prices.

Sep 19, 2024 · The revelation that superannuation funds are preventing low-balance members from accessing an account-based pension raises ethical alarm bells. The widespread practice places a potential handbrake on the poorest Australians entering pension phase and arguably threatens the grand bargain with the Australian public on compulsory super.

Oct 23, 2024 · As one of the rare public-offer industry super funds with a considerable defined benefit component, Aware Super is keen to apply its investment and liabilities management skills to defined contribution assets in a post-Retirement Income Covenant world. Portfolio manager of retirement strategy Shang Wu unpacks the fund’s DB position.

Feb 20, 2024 · The touchy subject of member service is set to receive fresh scrutiny as regulators warn that funds will be held responsible for mistakes made by third-party service providers. In a series of in-depth interviews, Investment Magazine unpacks the root cause of the super sector’s administration problems and the steps some funds are taking to address it.

Jan 23, 2025 · There is one investment area where Insignia’s $180 billion super arm has not lost money for the past 17 years, which is what it calls the insurance-related investments. The alternatives strategy is gaining popularity among asset owners due to its diversification benefit, but Insignia’s super and asset management investment chief Dan Farmer warns it is a space where investors can suffer if ...