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 …

Jan 31, 2025 · Investment Magazine provides in-depth, monthly analysis of trends and developments for all the businesses in which superannuation funds engage‚ including asset allocation, investment manager selection, custody and fund accounting, member administration, group insurance and compliance.

Nov 15, 2024 · The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has pledged to turn the nation’s pension providers into Australian- and Canadian-style “mega-funds”, by supercharging consolidation with measures such as imposing minimum size requirements on defined contribution funds. But while there has been a positive link between scale and investment performance in the Australian market, mega funds ...

Nov 11, 2024 · Mega fund AustralianSuper said it is still feeling the pain from its very public loss in US software company Pluralsight, and even with $341 billion of assets under management, a $1.1 billion write-down is still too big a chunk of money to let go easily. But at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, the fund’s senior private equity portfolio manager Robert Schnittger, said …

Nov 19, 2024 · The $34 billion Brighter Super is set to shift a significant proportion of equities assets in MySuper from passive to active management. Chief investment officer Mark Rider says the move is possible because of the scale created by mergers, and the fund will be looking to its newly appointed active managers to generate performance through the cycle by taking idiosyncratic risks.

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.

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.

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 ...

Mar 24, 2024 · Not every asset owner can explore the benefits of a total portfolio approach due to the strain it puts on an investment team’s efficiency. But for those that can afford the luxury, it can bring both rewarding portfolio diversification and organisational culture, according to Future Fund chief investment officer Ben Samild, who says the method “brings joy” to his job.