Hedging Against the Magnificent Seven Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities As the Magnificent Seven continue to power ahead, causing active managers to struggle, MLC Asset Management has taken charge of the situation through quite a unique approach. We speak with CIO Dan Farmer about the trade Read More
YFYS Takes Risk Management Tools Away Asset Allocation & Strategy, Chief Investment Officers, Private Wealth The introduction of the YFYS performance test and the subsequent move by super funds towards more passive strategies has put these funds in the difficult position where they are less able to protect members from large market draw downs, Bellmont’s Michael Block says Read More
Portfolio Optimisation at Cbus Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Cbus Super is preparing to quadruple the size of its portfolio optimisation program over the next 12 months, following the appointment of Justin Pascoe Read More
Preserving Capital at the NRMA Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers What is the secret behind the NRMA’s 14-year streak of positive annual returns? Dynamic asset allocation has a lot to do with it, Ainsley Lee says Read More
Managing Liabilities Through the Energy Transition Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, ESG, Insurance Coal LSL is a liability-driven investor in the true sense of the word, but its liability profile is changing due to the energy transition Read More
TelstraSuper Ups MySuper Growth Exposure Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Leadership & Management, Retirement TelstraSuper has changed its Mysuper Lifecycle options and introduced a High Growth option to reflect that members live and work for longer Read More
ICWA Appoints New CIO Appointment, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Insurance ICWA has appointed Steve McKenna as its new CIO, following the departure of Julie O’Neill Read More
Opportunistic Investments at TelstraSuper Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Private & Alternative Markets A key to TelstraSuper’s success has been its ability to react quickly to market dislocations, CIO Graeme Miller says It has been said Australian superannuation funds all invest in a similar way, and at a high level that statement is true. Most funds have models that offer members options with different asset allocation mixes, ranging […] Read More
What is Different about Decumulation? Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Opinion At the heart of the challenges of decumulation in retirement is the increased variety of events that can lead to the compounding of returns being interrupted, Charles Wu and Michael Berg write Read More
