Today
Super funds look to take advantage of energy transition
The biggest question for the $3.9 trillion super sector is not whether to invest in the energy transition’s unlisted asset boom, but rather which opportunities are best.
- Hannah Wootton
Yesterday
Cbus’ executives turn over but CFMEU directors are eternal
The rumours were true: acting chief risk officer Belinda Langdon did leave $90 billion fund in May. Hers follows a string of departures.
- Nick Bonyhady
Optus falls out with its mobile towers investor AustralianSuper
The country’s largest super fund acquired a controlling stake in the telco’s infrastructure business for almost $2 billion in 2021. But relations have since soured.
- Aaron Weinman and Jenny Wiggins
July
Is your super fund among these winners?
Investment chiefs of the top performers say there are still plenty of opportunities for the artificial intelligence revolution to drive up retirement savings.
- Hannah Wootton
AustralianSuper, Hesta look to supercharge housing investment
The industry super fund giants have taken shared ownership of Assemble, which develops affordable rental and for-sale housing.
- Michael Bleby
Banks turn to Gen AI to protect customers from scams
Banks and super funds deal with billions of data events every day, and are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to detect hacking attempts.
- Christopher Niesche
Revealed: Which super funds rate the best – and worst – for retirement
Superannuation funds are going backwards in terms of preparing their customers for retirement, new research shows.
- Hannah Wootton
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.
- Hannah Wootton
AustralianSuper, Gold Coast Council fly into Queensland Airports sale
The super fund is said to be weighing a sole bid, even though it would be in hot demand with overseas bidders seeking a local partner.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
No rate cuts and maybe a rise as inflation sticks, super funds warn
The investment chiefs of the country’s biggest funds also have a bleak outlook for Aussie shares over the next year, after global equities drove double-digit returns in FY23.
- Hannah Wootton
Super fund savings will ride out ‘year of elections’: CIOs
But investment chiefs warn that the rise of populism or an increase in US-China tensions could flow through to short-term returns.
- Hannah Wootton
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
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.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Superannuation
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.
- Joanna Mather
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.
- Hannah Wootton
Industry super giant lags rivals with 8.5pc return
Defensive positioning against equities stung AustralianSuper early in 2023-24, but growing its exposure to soaring technology stocks helped it recover.
- Hannah Wootton
Baby Bunting plots expansion on the back of HMC’s property portfolio
The retailer fell on tough times but its new CEO is expanding the network into fresh areas with smaller formats and exclusive products.
- Carrie LaFrenz
June
Cbus tops list for super complaints
Cbus also paid $1 million in compensation claims to customers in the first half of the financial year.
- Hannah Wootton
Origin Energy to trim green assets to boost returns
Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria says the country’s largest electricity utility will minimise the company’s ownership of wind and solar generation assets as part of a strategy to boost investor returns.
- Kylar Loussikian
Fortunes to be made as the private credit boom is going public
Once a cottage industry, private credit is now attracting billions of dollars, reshaping the financial system and minting new fortunes.
- Jonathan Shapiro
May
- Opinion
- Infrastructure
There’s value in big government spending done right
The private-public partnership championed by Anthony Albanese that is transforming the supply chains is a role model for underwriting critical minerals expansion.
- Tony Boyd
