Lucas Baird
Reporter at Australian Financial Review
Brimming with unearned self-confidence | No relation to Mike/Julia | financial services + breaking news for @FinancialReview | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird |Johnny Shapiro
The nation’s largest investment managers, including the big superannuation funds, are using private unlisted assets to shield their returns from the turmoil and volatility that have engulfed global equity markets after US President Donald Trump unveiled his sweeping tariff plans this month. With almost $300 billion wiped from the S&P/ASX 200 since early February – and steeper losses on Wall Street – markets have tanked, then roared back based on Trump’s erratic policy settings.
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2 weeks ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird
Apr 9, 2025 – 11.50am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Victorian Police will lead the investigation into last week’s breach of the nation’s largest superannuation funds that allowed criminals to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars out of retiree accounts.
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2 weeks ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird |Paul Smith
Apr 8, 2025 – 12.37pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The superannuation account details of thousands of Australian retirees are up for sale online, according to cybersecurity researchers who say the data was taken by covertly installed software known as “infostealers”.
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2 weeks ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird |Johnny Shapiro
Apr 7, 2025 – 5.43pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Major superannuation funds are urging their members not to panic after the sharemarket recorded its largest one-day loss in five years, cautioning them against switching their retirement savings into conservative options because the meltdown presents an opportunity to buy stock cheaply.
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2 weeks ago |
afr.com | Lucas Baird
Apr 7, 2025 – 11.22am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? All superannuation funds have been told by regulators to report by midday Monday if they have been breached in the coordinated cyberattack that rocked some of the nation’s largest retirement savings managers last week.
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