Australia’s $3 trillion APRA-regulated super sector cannot sit out the transition to a low-carbon economy. But despite years of climate commitments, less than one per cent of super fund assets appear ...

Rolling out a total portfolio approach is rarely a linear process, as even its most experienced practitioners have warned that without careful resistance to old language, culture and structure, asset ...

Superannuation fund responses to the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change have been patchy to date, with funds facing lack of compulsion and limited incentives and experiencing ...

Asset consultant Frontier Advisors has lifted out State Super’s investment team to create what it calls an “independent CIO” business for smaller funds that are being deserted by custodians or looking ...

As super funds turn their attention to supporting members as they retire, the emergence of a “retirees’ champion” within funds will ensure products and services are developed to help members through ...

Robin Khuda, founder and chief executive of AirTrunk, has been announced as a speaker at the Investment Magazine Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Healesville, taking institutional asset owners behind ...

Accomplished financial services journalist Lachlan Maddock has been appointed editor of Investment Magazine as the publication positions to continue covering Australia’s superannuation funds and ...

Vanguard Australia managing director Daniel Shrimski has warned against watering down the Your Future Your Super performance test but thinks that changes to its benchmarks could encourage investment ...

Brighter Super CIO Mark Rider is stepping down, leaving behind a fund very different to the one he joined, and one that’s getting ready for the next chapter of the superannuation story: retirement.

Asset owners like the Future Fund continue to weigh up the shifting risk-return attributes of the booming data centre sector including deal structures, refinancing, energy requirements, and the future ...