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This is the view of Hostplus CIO, Sam Sicilia, who predicts inflation is unlikely due to ongoing technology forces and Australia faces an extended period of low growth and lower corporate profits...

Hostplus, the national superannuation fund for the hospitality, tourism, recreation and sport industries, has supported the scholarship since it launched in 2014

“What is clear from these presentations is that our sector is doing well, despite global pressures and a changing landscape,

Hostplus is joining forces with a global private investment firm to launch a private equity emerging managers program in the US.

Hostplus chief executive David Elia told The Australian the fund would not be raising fees for two years

The country’s best super and pension funds will be recognised at Chant West’s seventh annual Super Fund Awards on 22 May 2019.

the $37 billion hospitality sector fund Hostplus said membership had jumped a net 350 per cent during 2018

Hostplus has teamed up with global private investments firm Flexstone Partners, an affiliate to Natixis Investment Managers, to start a US private equity emerging managers program dedicated to the fund.

Australia's best-performing superannuation fund is going against the grain by avoiding cash and bonds, betting the 30-year investment horizon of its youthful members means it can ride out looming economic shocks

Global private investments firm Flexstone Partners, which is an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, will work with the fund to develop the program which will also be dedicated to Hostplus

Hostplus Personal Super returned an average 1.87 per cent more than the market average and scored well for member access

As Hostplus turned 30 in 2018, its investment in venture capital surpassed $1 billion, making the fund Australia’s largest VC investor. Hostplus also achieved the highest return of all MySuper balanced investment options in the 2017/18 financial year, SuperRatings data shows.

Australia’s money gurus have crunched the numbers for you.

Industry super fund Hostplus has come out on top in this year’s Rainmaker Information SelectingSuper Awards.

Hospitality and tourism industry fund Hostplus’s predominantly young member base gives it an advantage over other funds in weathering market falls, CIO Sam Sicilia says.

Athena Home Loans, a fintech start-up founded by two ex-National Australia Bank bankers has not even launched its assault on the local property lending market, but that hasn't stopped it attracting the support of some of the most respected investors in the local VC and superannuation sector, closing a $25 million Series B funding round as it prepares to take on the big banks.

A $37 billion industry superannuation fund reclaimed its position as fund of the year at the annual Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards in Melbourne this morning.

In July, Tan’s innovation was awarded with the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival’s Hostplus Hospitality Scholarship, which next year will see her visit three top-tier overseas restaurants in a month to seek inspiration in some of the world’s best kitchens.

Industry super fund Hostplus has cemented its surprising status as the most influential figure in the Australian tech venture capital scene, increasing its assets targeted at future innovation to over $1 billion and calling for more of its institutional peers to embrace risk and fund the future of the country's economy.

In a move that will save super fund members hundreds of dollars a year in fees, 19 industry funds have agreed to co-operate and auto-consolidate members' accounts that are inactive with less than $6000 in them.

The CSIRO's innovation fund Main Sequences Ventures has raised an additional $132 million for its first fund, bringing on board superannuation fund Hostplus.

Paul Watson from Hostplus told A Current Affair that industry funds like his have outperformed the big players — the retail funds — mainly because, “we don’t exist for a profit margin or profit motive for shareholders."