THINKING AHEAD INSTITUTE

Funds management

The financial services group is the sole Australian firm to sit among the top 50 investment managers across the globe, but Australian firms have seen a decrease in AUM ov...

Funds management

There is a growing concentration among the top 20 managers whose market share increased to 44% of total assets, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute....

Superannuation

The Your Future Your Super reforms shift a reference portfolio from “being usefully operational to being detrimentally behavioural”, the Thinking Ahead Institute believes...

Superannuation

Super fund AustralianSuper has risen to be recognised as one of the top 50 largest asset owners in the world, with US$129,095 in assets. ...

Funds management

Macquarie Group has ranked as the largest asset manager in Australia with US$412 billion ($583 billion), significantly greater than its nearest rival....

Funds management

Institutional investors should not measure investment impact in isolation and focus more on linking it to value creation for stakeholders. ...

Superannuation

Australian superannuation funds have been shown to have significantly outperformed their international peers in 2019 – something which has likely changed in 2020....

Financial planning

Investment industry, which lacks learning from experience when it comes to improving investment committee practices and governance, should follow the aircraft industry’s ...

Features

Oksana Patron finds out how advisers can incorporate alternative investment strategies into their clients’ portfolio, what they need to understand about alternative inves...

Funds management

Asset managers are walking the talk on environmental, social, and governance issues as assets managed according to ESG principles increased by 17.8% in 2018, according to...

Financial planning

Research from the Thinking Ahead Institute showed the future of defined contributions systems are crucial in the development for retirement systems globally....

Funds management

Global temperature change, global trade collapse and cyber warfare are the three biggest risks for financial markets according to a report....

Funds management

Only a small proportion of asset managers have measured and actively manage their own culture, according to a research paper by the Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI)....

Superannuation

Defined contribution assets in pension markets have overtaken defined benefit assets for the first time in what could be construed as a vote of confidence in Australia’s ...

People & Products

Former Russell Investments executive, Bob Collie, has joined the Thinking Ahead Institute....

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