Lucas Baird is a reporter at The Australian Financial Review. He focuses on health and wellness, finance, and investment, covering topics such as alternative investments, asset management, and global markets. Lucas's work has been featured in The Australian Financial Review.
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By: Lucas Baird
In a consultation paper, officials have suggested different ways of assessing whether retirement savings investment funds are providing the best outcomes.
By: Lucas Baird
A handful of the nation's largest and most powerful superannuation funds has urged the Albanese government to ban a popular and controversial
By: Lucas Baird
Humm founder and controlling shareholder Andrew Abercrombie has quit the ASX-listed financing company's board after a government panel found he
By: Andrew Hobbs, Lucas Baird, Nicola Smith
Follow our live coverage of the 2026 budget Treasurer Jim Chalmers' fifth federal budget promises to deliver intergenerational equity
There is one winner in the wealth accumulation game out of Treasurer Jim Chalmers' fifth budget; the humble self-managed superannuation fund has
By: Lucas Baird
An ASX-listed company closely linked to the $1 billion failure of the Shield and First Guardian funds is suing the financial complaints ombudsman
By: Lucas Baird
“Not all corporate actions and the strategies of investment banks are in the best interests of shareholders,” warned the chairman of the $410bn fund.
By: Lucas Baird
Don Russell, the chairman of the country's largest pension fund, says the annual performance test for the $4.5 trillion sector is structurally
By: Lucas Baird
The corporate regulator has alleged that ASX-listed Equity Trustees failed to act in the best financial interests of its members when making the
By: Lucas Baird
The country's biggest for-profit pension funds are crowding the market with products that game the age pension test to maximise the benefit for
