This technical note proves a simple mathematical relationship between the return on assets (ROA) of financial accounting standards and the return on investments (ROI) of investment performance standards. We show why this relationship is needed by users of APRA data to convert ROA to ROI for...

Compared with large institutional pension funds, there is relatively little published research on small funds, which are defined in the Australian superannuation legislation as pension funds with less than five members. Small funds account for more than 20% of total pension assets and they are...

In the first paper, the lacklustre investment performance of Australian superannuation was attributed to the Retail sector. This second paper investigates potential explanations for this fact through an empirical attribution analysis of the impact of asset allocation, operational structure and...