Life-cycle, Annuities Less Relevant For Cbus Asset Owners, Retirement The unique characteristics of Cbus members make life-cycle and annuity strategies less attractive to them, the pension fund’s chief executive said at the inaugural [i3] Pensions Portfolio Forum. Read More
NZ Super adds Commodity Tilting Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Innovation 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. Read More
Real Estate Profile – HESTA Asset Owners, Real Estate HESTA’s real estate portfolio plays an important role in executing the fund’s impact investment strategy, Florence Chong writes. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
AustralianSuper Scales up Machine Learning Asset Owners, Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation 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. Read More
Real Estate Profile: Hostplus – Part I Asset Owners, Real Estate Hostplus is eyeing offshore property as the fund continues to grow. Read More
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. Read More
In Defence of Life-cycle Strategies Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Innovation, Retirement Australian Catholic Super CIO Michael Block addresses some of the criticism of life-cycle 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. Read More
