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Insights articles categorised 'Asset Owners'

Lifecycle, Annuities Less Relevant For Cbus

David Iverson, Head of Asset Allocation, New Zealand Super

NZ Super adds Commodity Tilting

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners

New Zealand Super’s strategic tilting program has added significant value to its portfolio and now it is ready to add a new asset class to its framework.

David Deverall, Chief Executive Officer, TCorp

TCorp Revises Investment Strategy

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners

TCorp has been on a merger journey that has seen it become a $107 billion juggernaut. In this exclusive interview, TCorp Chief Executive David Deverall talks about how this has changed not only the company’s ambitions, but also its investment strategy.

Spiros Deftereos, Head of Property, Hostplus

Real Estate Profile: Hostplus – Part II

Asset Owners, Real Estate

In part II of the interview with Spiros Deftereos, he gives the lie to a perception that superannuation funds do not or will not invest in Australia’s residential sector.

Innes McKeand, Head of Equities, AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper Scales up Machine Learning

Asset Owners, Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic

AustralianSuper started its first machine-learning strategy only two years ago, but already it has become a near core strategy and has a substantial amount of money running in it.

Real Estate Profile – First State Super

Asset Owners, Real Estate

First State Super has spent four years rationalising its real estate portfolio, selling $1 billion of old stock. Now, the fund has turned its eye on responsible investments in the residential sector, Florence Chong writes.

Michael Block, Chief Investment Officer, Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund

In Defence of Life-cycle Strategies

Asset Owners, Retirement

Australian Catholic Super CIO Michael Block addresses some of the criticism of lifecycle strategies and argues that we should take a closer look at the concept behind it. “To always place a member who is 20 years old with a 60-year old member in the same strategy is clearly ridiculous,” he says.

Real Estate Profile – Sunsuper

Asset Owners, Real Estate

The $66 billion Sunsuper manages both external and direct property investment mandates. Florence Chong speaks with Sunsuper’s Michael Weaver about the fund’s strategy and the attraction of niche markets.

VicSuper – The Importance of Stakeholder Management

Asset Owners, ESG

If boards receive too much data, it all becomes just noise, VicSuper CIO Andrew Howard says.

Real Estate Profile – Cbus Property

Asset Owners, Real Estate

As the search for yield has driven up prices of commercial properties, many pension funds are scrambling around to find investments with decent risk/return characteristics. It is a problem that Cbus hasn’t had to deal with, largely because it owns a fully-fledged property developer in Cbus Property that has a healthy pipeline of projects. Florence Chong speaks with Cbus Super’s Grant Harrison about risk management, ESG and external managers.