Asset Owner Directory

Future Fund

Future Fund is Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, responsible for investing for the benefit of future generations of Australians. Future Fund was established in 2006 to strengthen the Commonwealth’s long-term financial position and manages six public asset funds.Future Fund operate independently from the Australian government and tailors the management of each fund to its unique investment mandate.

Country

Australia

AUM ($B, AS AT DATE OF ASSET ALLOCATION)

$194

Performance (%, 1YR)

9.1

Chief Executive

Raphael Arndt

Chief Investment Officer

Ben Samild

Chair

Greg Combet

Asset allocation

10.3% Australian Equities

20.8% Developed Markets Equities

6.2% Emerging Markets Equities

14.5% Private Equity

5.4% Property

9.9% Infrastructure and Timberland

11% Credit

15.2% Alternatives

6.7% Cash

Website

View the annual report

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark country system description

Asset allocation as of June 30, 2024. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

Top1000funds.com related articles

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

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

Asset owners pressing the reset button

The synergy of talented individuals working together is the key to unlocking organisational and portfolio alpha, according to an indepth new study of 26 asset owners including the Future Fund. The study’s author Roger Urwin of the Thinking Ahead Institute discusses the challenges and opportunities of this combinatorial power.

Roger UrwinJuly 29, 2024

Investor Profile

Future Fund CIO rejects ‘macho, Darwinian’ investing culture

In his first public comments since being named chief investment officer of Australia’s sovereign wealth fund in August, Ben Samild has said fostering a team culture of “purpose and joy” is among his top priorities.

Aleks VickovichDecember 5, 2023

Investor Profile

Future Fund jolts out of ‘set and forget’ mode

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund has handed mandates to external active managers and built a dedicated treasury management function, six years after going all-in on passive index strategies. It is is also on the hunt for early stage venture opportunities as it continues to forecast challenging conditions and higher persistent inflation.

Aleks VickovichAugust 31, 2023

View more articles