Future Fund

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Future Fund to internalise some local real assets amid US uncertainty

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund says managing FX in its portfolio is becoming more challenging as the dominant role of the US in the global order is redefined. Meanwhile, it’s also bringing management of Australian infrastructure and property in-house as part of a focus on domestic real asset exposures.

Brendan Swift and Lachlan MaddockJune 18, 2025

FIS Singapore 2025

Asset owners prepare portfolios for a brave new world

As waves of geopolitical risk and economic protectionism roil global markets, asset owners are beginning to realise that tomorrow will look very different from today. But the big question is what they can do about it.

Lachlan MaddockMarch 31, 2025

Asset Allocation

Behind Future Fund’s $70bn inflation-related portfolio shift

In the past two years, the Future Fund has made around $70 billion worth of changes in the portfolio that can be traced back to stubbornly high inflation. Its director of research and insights, Craig Thorburn, outlined how asset allocation around currencies, alternatives and bonds are all looking different.

Darcy SongOctober 29, 2024

InFocus

The long and the short of harnessing demographics for better returns

Demographics is destiny, or so the saying goes. As populations grow, and as they move about, there will be investment opportunities that arise from their needs, their activity and their consumption. The trick for investors, however, is working out how long-term trends figure in generating shorter-term investment performance.

Simon HoyleSeptember 4, 2024

Featured Story

Better performance and alignment of purpose: The benefits of TPA

A total portfolio approach aligns investment implementation with the purpose of being a fiduciary, rather than short term or relative performance. Not only that, there is huge upside performance from the approach, the source of which is not what you might think according to Sue Brake.

Darcy SongAugust 22, 2024

Organisational Design

Study gives evidence of value-add from TPA over SAA

The funds that use TPA added 1.8 per cent pa for 10 years above those using SAA in a recent Thinking Ahead Institute study of 26 asset owners. And the systems-thinking TPA approach, with the benefits of dynamism and joined-upness, will help asset owners in an environment of increasing complexity.

Amanda WhiteAugust 1, 2024

Featured Story

Future Fund to internalise some local real assets amid US uncertainty

FIS Singapore 2025

Asset owners prepare portfolios for a brave new world

Asset Allocation

Behind Future Fund’s $70bn inflation-related portfolio shift

InFocus

The long and the short of harnessing demographics for better returns

Featured Story

Better performance and alignment of purpose: The benefits of TPA

Organisational Design

Study gives evidence of value-add from TPA over SAA

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