Brian Parker

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money money money · economic update: fuel prices, oil, interest rates & inflation (with Brian Parker, Chief Economist at ART) · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

we get paid to take a step back and look for opportunity.

And that's what we're really trying to do.

So if I think about what we've been doing, and I suspect a range of other super funds have been doing, looking for opportunity in this kind of environment.

Look, absolutely.

And the way we think about portfolio design and asset allocation is we think, okay, if you want me to build, like we run a range of diversified options.

And again, most super funds do this.

So I'm not just, this is not ART specific.

We offer a range of diversified options that

that are designed to meet the needs of a range of different members that are at a different phase of life and different appetite for risk.

If you want me to build a conservative portfolio, I'll have a relatively small amount of money in higher risk assets such as shares.

I'll have a higher allocation to something like cash, government and corporate bonds, term deposits and the like.

But if you want a more aggressive portfolio, I'm going to build you a portfolio that has a much higher allocation to share markets because you've effectively told me that if you're investing in that portfolio, you're prepared to accept a higher level of volatility in order to achieve a higher long-term return.

And so when we think about how we build those portfolios, we try and build portfolios where we've got a range of different assets in there and assets that will deliver decent returns in different market environments.

Mm-hmm.

so that you might have equities for very strong growth environments.

You'll have investments in things like some real assets like infrastructure to produce some growth, but also good protection against inflation and good long-term income growth.

Cash and fixed income for particularly challenging environments.

It's about making sure that when we're designing an asset allocation, designing a strategy, what we're really trying to do is maximize our chances of achieving what we're telling members we're aiming to do.

Delivering what's on the tin.

If we tell members we're aiming to deliver a certain return after tax, after fees and after inflation, we need to build a portfolio that maximizes our chances of delivering exactly that to members.

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