Trying to accurately predict the future is futile. So Australia's top investors are building portfolios designed to endure ...

Funds that build capable teams, resilient structures, reliable information flows and a culture of accountability are best ...

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

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 ...

The message from ASIC and APRA at the Retirement Leaders Summit in Canberra on 13 August was clear: super funds are not treating their Retirement Income Covenant obligations with the urgency the ...

APRA’s move to slap licence conditions on HESTA following its admin transfer from MUFG to Grow Inc. is counterproductive. After all, the regulators want super funds to improve their administration and ...

Technology delivery in financial services is changing fast. In less than two years, generative AI has gone from one big experiment to enterprise adoption. It can now be seen helping teams produce ...