Super funds be wary: we’re in a period of engagement

Maybe, people had little or no reason to shift super funds up until the late 1990s when it became easier to do so. And then we entered the period of disengagement. Now, in 2009, we have the dual impact of the new period of engagement coupled with higher account balances and recent performance problems. The analogy with bank accounts may not be all that strong, either. From a customer’s viewpoint, banks just give a service, which is difficult to measure, and a rate of interest which is not a lot different from their competitors. Super funds, on the other hand, produce an easily comparable investment performance figure (at a less-easily comparable level of risk) with a much greater dispersion between top and bottom.

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Realities behind the SaaS sell-off

The roughly US$2 trillion ($2.8 trillion) sell-off in the global software sector since September 2025 is, while a painful drawdown for growth investors, also a timely reminder that asset owners should be more alert to stock-specific dispersion and hidden concentration risk inside portfolios, writes JANA head of research execution, Matthew Gadsden.

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