Investments
CSS investment strategy
The CSS investment strategy is based on four key principles:
- Taking a global view
Investing only in Australia can limit potential returns, so ARIA also searches for investment opportunities in both established and emerging international markets.
- Long-term versus short-term
We focus on acquiring assets that can sustainably deliver returns to members over the long term. We seek to exploit shorter-term pricing opportunities to enter or exit our investment strategies, and we are aware of the desirability of reducing short-term volatility, where possible.
- Diversification
Where fund investment constraints permit, we invest your super across different asset classes to reduce concentration of risk in any one theme.
- Best-practice due diligence and manager selection
We focus on identifying asset managers with the skills to understand asset market fundamentals, price risk appropriately and generate consistent risk-adjusted returns.
Looking to the future
The CSS is a large superannuation fund by Australian standards, and it will likely continue to be for many years yet. However, with fund outflows from departing members now exceeding fund inflows, we increasingly take account of liquidity considerations in framing our investment strategy.
