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....

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Superannuation

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

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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. ...

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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....

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Funds management

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

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Superannuation

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

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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 ...

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Features

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

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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...

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Financial planning

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

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Funds management

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

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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)....

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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 ...

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People & Products

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

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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