The 88,000 members of Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (ACSRF) are about to be very confused. As are members of some other big super funds. Forty-year-old members in ACSRF’s default MySuper product, LifetimeOne, will be told they just earned
Supported by record retail inflows, ESG-focused investing has, finally, become ‘the norm’, according to panelists at least two of the sessions at last week’s (August 31-September 2) AIST ASI conference. But one of the interesting, most recent, trends within this
In the past 10 months, since November last year, the investor’s decision on China has done a fully circle – from not whether to invest but how to invest, back to not how but whether. It was in November that
As investors have looked to put more sizzle into their fixed interest portfolios for extra yield, a sector within the ESG universe has been, increasingly, providing just that – impact bonds. For big super funds the main game has been
With equities and bonds both fully priced, investors are increasingly looking at alternative strategies. A new one, although difficult to access, is ‘greenfields infrastructure’. According to David Neal, the chief executive of IFM Investors and a former CIO and chief
AustralianSuper is no longer the underdog. The question is what becomes of the industry fund culture when industry funds “are the status quo”. As Australia’s first $200 billion+ megafund, AustralianSuper is no longer the upstart born of the 2006 merger
As a far-reaching regulatory crackdown rolls through Asian markets, Elizabeth Soon, portfolio manager for PineBridge, leans on one key lesson from her thirty years in equity markets: volatility brings opportunity. “People become fearful when markets fall and they sell, but
Despite APRA’s move to name and shame 13 underperforming funds, it’s clear that Your Future Your Super (YFYS) is a work in progress. More needs to be done to make it a true and fair test. Call them the Dirty
Global central banks are developing a stronger appetite for external fund managers to oversee a wide range of asset classes held on their ballooning balance sheets, a new study has found. According to the 2021 Global Public Investor (GPI) survey
The negative correlation between bond and equity returns is taken as scripture in financial markets. But Capital Fund Management (CFM) warns that the times may be changing. The negative correlation between bond and equity returns is the (relatively) simple
The 88,000 members of Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (ACSRF) are about to be very confused. As
Supported by record retail inflows, ESG-focused investing has, finally, become ‘the norm’, according to panelists at least two
In the past 10 months, since November last year, the investor’s decision on China has done a fully
As investors have looked to put more sizzle into their fixed interest portfolios for extra yield, a sector
With equities and bonds both fully priced, investors are increasingly looking at alternative strategies. A new one, although
AustralianSuper is no longer the underdog. The question is what becomes of the industry fund culture when industry
As a far-reaching regulatory crackdown rolls through Asian markets, Elizabeth Soon, portfolio manager for PineBridge, leans on one
Despite APRA’s move to name and shame 13 underperforming funds, it’s clear that Your Future Your Super (YFYS)
Global central banks are developing a stronger appetite for external fund managers to oversee a wide range of
The negative correlation between bond and equity returns is taken as scripture in financial markets. But Capital Fund
