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Super funds have fallen behind banks on nature-related physical and transition risk, with a regulatory muddle, lack of internal resourcing and data concerns holding them back even as damage to ecosystems threatens “cascading losses”.

How do investors stay on top of diversification and maintain adequate levels of non-correlation when markets oscillate with every breath and asset relationships are as fickle as they are malleable?

The $80 billion profit to-member-fund has added State Super director and former AIST president Catherine Bolger to its board to fill the position left vacant by Julia Fox.

AustralianSuper’s erstwhile head of equities will head to the construction industry fund as its new head of portfolio construction amidst a slew of C-suite departures.

We’re in the Palm Pilot era of artificial intelligence, according to EFG Asset Management, and nobody knows what’s coming next. That hasn’t stopped the big tech companies becoming a portfolio construction headache in the here and now.

Impact is one way to diversify away from the big tech stocks that rule the index without missing out on the transformative themes that put them there in the first place, according to T.Rowe Price.

The desire to open up its membership base was one of the drivers behind CSC’s attempt to merge with AvSuper, but the change in government and a new legislative agenda tripped it up.

The “true merger of equals” will create a new $52 billion fund but retain the branding of Care Super to take advantage of its strong recognition in the market.

Superannuation funds and other financial services providers are trying to combat greenwashing in their own communications amidst changing regulatory expectations. Equity Trustees wants to help them out.

The executive responsible for driving ART’s post-merger growth has taken the top superannuation job at Insignia Financial as it looks to overhaul its business for “profitable growth”.

The industry funds’ unlisted property manager has slashed the valuations of its core property fund as well as a single asset office trust amidst a slow-moving commercial property downturn.

The megafund has reshuffled its executive team and seen several key departures as it hits $300 billion in funds under management and embarks on a restructure of its operational model.