Tackling issues pre-emptively: seven needed conversations
Building the resilience of fund executives, their teams and their organisations is foundational to FEAL’s strategy for ultimately improving retirement for members
Diversity: Too much of a good thing
Controversially, there is such a thing as too much diversity, according to research that looks at the impact of cognitive diversity among teams
A long way to go
It’s all very well to have diversity, but most people lack the tools for how to get the best out of a diverse team
The Future Fund’s collective brain
Experts at the Thinking Ahead Institute outline the pitfalls of implementing team diversity, when too much diversity fails us, and how organisations can be champions for change
HESTA preparing for carbon pricing in global equities
HESTA has funded a new global equities mandate where the strategy is to achieve a 50 per cent reduction in its carbon footprint
Global developments around fee transparency
Disclosure and standardisation are two reasons fees are under pressure in private equity, and global movements should keep the momentum up
Low-rate environment forces insurance CIOs to diversify
There is significant consensus among chief investment officers that the late stage of the credit cycle has been entered into
UniSuper and peak bodies respond to increase in ASIC funding
In a rare move, UniSuper has commented on the Government’s decision to increase funding to ASIC
UniSuper using growth/defensive split inside asset classes
UniSuper is using the underlying risk characteristics of individual assets to categorise them instead of relying on traditional growth/defensive definitions
The concerns of institutional investors
The role of institutional investors in decarbonising the economy is one of the key issues on the minds of super funds
Cbus changing the rules of the game
The traditional path for super funds that face diseconomies of scale is to set up large in-house teams, but there are alternatives
Statewide Super moves to software-as-service model
Statewide Super has decided to focus on fund administration and optimising the member experience, rather than concentrating on internal software development and maintenance
