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Lessons from the middle: Leadership, resilience and the courage of conviction

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The principles of high-performance leadership – whether in business or sport – remain remarkably consistent and include the ability to maintain clarity, integrity, and conviction under immense pressure. Former Australian test cricketer Usman Khawaja told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, held by Investment Magazine sister publication Top1000Funds.com, that the only time you really lose is when you stop trying.

Emerging markets’ strength is coming from within

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Produced in partnership with Robeco. For years, emerging markets were boxed as a commodity proxy, a levered play on China, or a diversifier in a developed markets-centric portfolio. The economic architecture has shifted: EM and developing economies now account for the majority of global GDP on a purchasing power parity basis and growth projections expect … Read more

Why emerging markets are the engine of the AI boom

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If investors look under the hood of the emerging markets, they’ll find an “innovation trinity”: AI hardware and advanced semiconductors, the energy transition and digital infrastructure. With industrial ecosystems backed by policy, talent and scale, that trinity isn’t easily replicated elsewhere.

More data obligations for funds as APRA consults on retirement reporting

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With the government’s Retirement Reporting Framework finalised, the regulator is consulting with funds on the structure and timing of an implementation program designed to create a fit-for-purpose regime with minimal additional compliance burden.

‘Stick to your guns’: HESTA says disciplined DAA still delivers

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Dynamic asset allocation has become increasingly popular among pension and sovereign wealth funds as a top-down tool to generate alpha and mitigate risk in the face of changing market conditions, though not every asset owner believes in the approach’s value-add. But HESTA’s general manager of dynamic assets Michael Blayney argues active asset allocation is just natural extension of the underlying logic in security selection.

Super funds and insurers confront escalating mental health claims crisis

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Mental ill health claims across group and retail life insurance policies are expected to reach more than $4 billion this year, according to data from the Council of Australian Life Insurers and Conexus Financial – a trajectory that is unlikely to change. But the ways that superannuation funds and insurers are dealing with mental ill health are flawed, according to an Investment Magazine roundtable, in partnership with AIA Australia.

GESB CEO calls time: ‘Past regime of default super’ no longer sustainable

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GESB chief executive Ben Palmer is set to leave the Western Australian government super fund, ending a 13-year tenure after steering the fund through the most significant change in its history. In a rare interview, Palmer examines the past, present and future of super and explains why GESB is treating platforms, not profit-to-member funds, as its benchmark.

‘Not an ATM’: Sicilia shrugs off private credit liquidity fears

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The chief investment officer of the $150 billion industry super fund says that Hostplus’ portfolio will weather the ongoing downturn in software companies and that moves by a number of large private credit managers to gate their funds are a result of the asset class being offered to retail investors who should not have assumed the funds would be liquid enough to get money out when everybody else is trying to do the same.

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Investment Magazine provides in-depth, monthly analysis of trends and developments for all the businesses in which superannuation funds engage‚ including asset allocation, investment manager selection, custody and fund accounting, member administration, group insurance and compliance.

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