The long-serving CEO of the $4 billion First Super is taking up the CIO role at Queensland-based industry fund BUSSQ, and ...

Behavioural economics has taught us that individuals can be poor at making optimal decisions. Shlomo Benartzi, a global ...

The low take-up of annuities has been a feature of the market for decades, and while various theories have been put forward ...

Australia’s superannuation system might be the envy of other nations, but when it comes to the retirement phase it can work ...

MLC Super will lean more heavily on its derivatives capability to manage the risks of its active managers running ...

In 2025, the institutional investment sector was rocked by admin growing pains in super and the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian investment schemes. But the year also saw funds take the world ...

Superannuation industry investment leaders have warned that herding mentality caused by the Your Future Your Super performance test is distracting funds from focusing on long-term returns and may be ...

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 ...

Swept into power in 1983, the Treasurer of the Hawke government, Paul Keating understood the need for a retirement policy to “complement the aged pension”. For Keating, this system was superannuation ...

Growing institutional investor demand for private debt has been driven by attractive returns on the back of a robust M&A pipeline. The market is expected to grow at an annual 10.8 per cent to reach ...

Many of the problems with the existing Your Future Your Super performance test arise from the tyranny imposed by the benchmark indices. Broadening the test to focus on total portfolio returns will ...