This Month
Why super fund investment calls are about more than next quarter’s returns
What’s at the heart of a super fund’s investment strategy? Capital allocation. And the better it allocates that capital, the better for all of us.
December 2024
Super for young professionals
They say youth is wasted on the young. And you could say the same thing about super.
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November 2024
Super and the coming generational wealth transfer
Gens X, Y, and Z are about to come into some money. In what’s become known as the great wealth transfer, in the two decades from 2023 Australia’s over-60s are expected to hand down $6.2 trillion worth of assets to their heirs, says McCrindle.
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Australia’s most complained about super funds revealed
Embattled construction industry fund Cbus topped the list of major funds, new data shows, but complaints across the sector jumped last financial year.
July 2024
Top 10 super funds revealed for FY24
A small mining industry fund delivered the highest returns for the second year in a row, with two retail super giants joining it in first place.
Too uncertain, too slow: funds rule out financing Dutton nuclear plan
The disinterest from superannuation funds comes despite appetite for other energy transition assets and a shortage of domestic investment opportunities.
Don’t switch super funds until reckoning in unlisted assets is over
Industry fund executives regularly boasted about capitalising on the so-called “illiquidity premium”, but the world has changed.
Retail super funds ride tech boom to outperform industry rivals
Two of Australia’s largest retail superannuation funds delivered 11-plus per cent returns as they benefited from soaring sharemarkets.
May 2024
The super funds where customers are retiring faster than new ones join
The research from KPMG comes as the $3.6 trillion superannuation industry heads towards the point it is paying out more cash than it brings in.