Lachlan Maddock

The $1 billion Shield and First Guardian collapse could lead to more externally managed products being included in the Your Future Your Super performance test.

Treasury is considering sweeping changes to the Your Future Your Super performance test to discourage the benchmark-hugging behaviour that has characterised super fund investments since the introduction of the test in 2021.

Distinguished economist and former RBA board member Warwick McKibbin thinks that AI doomsayers aren't grasping the economic opportunities it will

Australia's superannuation funds have the financial weight to shape geopolitical outcomes but need to band together avoid being “divided and conquered”, according to Tom Gregg, former senior UN official and mediator, and senior international adviser at Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check. “The weight in this room is extraordinary,” Gregg told the Investment Magazine Fiduciary Investors Symposium in the NSW Blue Mountains.

The $230 billion Aware Super has been in “build mode” for the past decade, according to its new CIO Simon Warner, but he thinks it's time to start

The $237 billion Aware Super says that it's ready for more mergers after gobbling up TelstraSuper, but that it won't be a “buyer of complexity” in an already rapidly consolidating super system.

The big geopolitical and macroeconomic events of the last six years haven't changed the investment game, according to AMP CIO Anna Shelley, but they

Super funds are coming under increasing pressure from APRA and ASIC to demonstrate how they're using and thinking about AI.

Australia's energy system was largely built in the late 80s and needs to be replaced almost entirely, according to Sam Reynolds, chief executive of Octopus Australia, who said the need is even more pressing with electricity demand set to soar amidst the data centre boom.

As the AI thematic drives listed markets higher and higher, private equity has become a drag on performance for Australian asset owners.