Future Fund on Infra and Pandemics Asset Owners, Infrastructure The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on infrastructure assets, both positive and negative. Florence Chong speaks with the Future Fund’s James Fraser-Smith about the effect on airports, data centres and renewable assets. Read More
Episode 47: Pinebridge’s Michael Kelly Multi-manager firm Pinebridge Investments is a partner of Australian pension fund SunSuper and was given the task to write a research paper on how it decided to go active or passive in a particular market. Michael Kelly is Global Head of Multi-Asset at Pinebridge and takes us through the research paper. He also talks about […] Read More
A Guide to Retirement Guides, Retirement As more superannuation members retire, the need to develop robust retirement options that combine the need for income, some form of longevity protection and appropriate levels of risk into one platform has never been greater. But this is no easy task. Read More
Australian Catholic Super and NGS to Merge Asset Owners Australian Catholic Superannuation and NGS Super have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge. The merger would create a $21 billion fund, with 210,000 members. Read More
Superannuation Funds pay $6.3 billion in Early Release Asset Allocation & Strategy, Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Superannuation funds have paid out $6.3 billion in total under the early release scheme to people who are experiencing financial hardship as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
A Pandemic Review Editorial, Financial Crisis As we reach the 12 month mark since the start of the pandemic in Australia, what are some of the lessons learned and what changes are likely to stick around? We go back to some of the most dramatic shifts of 2020. Read More
Cbus Sees Trouble for Smaller Funds Asset Owners, Risk and Regulation Cbus CEO Justin Arter expects to see more consolidation among smaller funds as the proposed super reforms might cause these funds to rethink their purpose in life. Read More
Sunsuper Discusses Partnership Program Asset Owners, Innovation Sunsuper has lift the hood on its partnership program and the results are surprising to say the least. Read More
[i3] Pacific Forum Company Visits As part of the [i3] Pacific Investment Strategy Forum, asset owner delegates visited the offices of Sunsuper and Schroder Investment Management for an exchange of thoughts and ideas on institutional investing. Read More
Episode 33: Vanguard’s Gus Sauter Gus Sauter is the former Chief Investment Officer of Vanguard for 10 years and was instrumental in the company’s venture into exchange traded funds. He talks to [i3] Insights editor Wouter Klijn about his early career, Jack Bogle’s questioning of ETFs and his current role as adviser to Australian pension fund Sunsuper. Podcast overview Gus […] Read More