Allianz Retire + is an Australian company dedicated to developing retirement products to meet the unique needs of Australian retirees. We have brought together Allianz’ world-class insurance know-how with PIMCO’s unrivalled investment expertise to deliver security and stability throughout retirement. Our combined heritage, long-standing stability and global reach ensures that our retirement products can last a lifetime and evolve with the ups and downs of the market and the changing needs of our clients.

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is a responsible asset manager, actively investing for the long-term to help its clients, its people and the world to prosper. Our high conviction approach enables us to uncover what we believe to be the best global investment opportunities across alternative and traditional asset classes, managing approximately AU$1.3 trillion in assets as at the end of December 2020.

AXA IM is a leading investor in green, social and sustainable markets, managing AU$882 billion of ESG-integrated, sustainable and impact assets. We are committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 across all our assets, and integrating ESG principles into our business, from stock selection to our corporate actions and culture. Our goal is to provide clients with a true value responsible investment solution, while driving meaningful change for society and the environment.

AXA IM employs over 2,440 employees around the world, operates out of 27 offices across 20 countries and is part of the AXA Group, a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management.

Federated Hermes is guided by the conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create long-term wealth. We provide specialised capabilities across equity, fixed income and private markets, in addition to multi-asset strategies and liquidity-management solutions. Through pioneering stewardship services, we engage companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests. Our goals are to help individuals invest and retire better, help clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns, and to contribute to positive outcomes in the wider world.

All activities previously carried out by Hermes Investment Management now form the international business of Federated Hermes.

Link Group connects millions of people with their assets including equities, pension and superannuation, investments, property and other financial assets. We do this by partnering with thousands of financial market participants to deliver services, solutions and technology platforms that enhance the user experience and make scaled administration simple. We help manage regulatory complexity, improve data management and provide tools to help people connect to their assets, leveraging analysis, insight and technology. Our core businesses are complemented by our expertise in digital solutions and data analytics, and enable us to provide a complete service to our global network of clients and partners. We are the largest provider of services in Australia's superannuation administration industry, which services the fourth largest pension pool in the world based on funds under management.

MLC Life Insurance has been protecting Australians for 137 years. Today, we proudly insure one million Australian lives through our group insurance partners and retail advisers, who trust us to protect their employees, superannuation fund members, and clients.

Last year, we paid more than $1 billion in claims, providing a helping hand when people needed us most.

We also cared for our customers and their families through Vivo, our health, wellness, and recovery program. Vivo won multiple Plan for Life Excellence Awards in 2022, including the Overall Health & Wellness Excellence Award.

We continue to make significant investment in our technology, infrastructure, and support services to better serve our employees, advisers, superfund clients and their members.

MLC Life Insurance is part of the Nippon Life Insurance Group, a mutual company with over 14 million customers globally and a focus on putting people first.

Neuberger Berman was founded in 1939 to do one thing: deliver compelling investment results for our clients over the long term. This remains our singular purpose today, driven by a culture rooted in deep fundamental research, the pursuit of investment insight and continuous innovation on behalf of clients, and facilitated by the free exchange of ideas across the organization.

As a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, Neuberger Berman is structurally aligned with the long-term interests of our clients. We have no external parent or public shareholders to serve, nor other lines of business to distract us from our core mission.

Novigi is the data and technology partner to the Financial Services industry. We work with superannuation funds to help them navigate the three megatrends driving the sector, these being data-driven operating models, sector wide interoperability and the data challenges of consolidation and mergers. By working collaboratively with clients to design, build and manage data and technology solutions, we help them leverage their data assets and deliver better outcomes for their customers.

QIC is an Australian-based investment manager that is a trusted fiduciary, providing strong and sustainable risk-adjusted returns for the circa 115 domestic and international clients we serve.

Our government ownership has afforded us the stability to apply a truly long-term view to whole of fund investing, and produced a thirty-year heritage of serving the enduring investment needs of sovereign and institutional investors.

Today, our highly experienced teams actively manage portfolios across infrastructure, real estate, private debt, liquid markets, and private equity via our Australian and offshore offices.

With US$69bn* assets under management, we opportunistically create access for private capital to work with the Queensland Government to deliver mutually beneficial investment outcomes.

*As at 30 June 2021

Schroders is one of the largest and most internationally diverse independent investment managers in the world, providing investment management, research and marketing services. Schroders was established in Australia in 1961 and as at 30 June 2021, manages A$34.5 billion on behalf of clients.

The Australian business is focused on asset management for institutions, advisers and individual clients. Comprising a team of more than 90 people, it is home to the domestic research and investment teams for capabilities in Australian Equities, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Global Equities.

As at 30 June 2021, Schroders managed A$1,017.5 billion on behalf of clients in 35 locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. Schroders in Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Schroders plc.

Scientific Beta is a global provider of advanced index solutions designed to help asset managers and institutions understand and invest in smart factor and ESG equity strategies.

Established by a leading fundamental and applied investment research institution, the EDHEC-Risk Institute, Scientific Beta incorporates an academic level of scientific rigour and veracity into its solutions.  Building on their multifactor roots, recent research on the impact and management of ESG and macro-economic exposures within equity portfolios allows Scientific Beta to deliver a truly bespoke solution for each investor.  

Scientific Beta offers a wide range of multi-factor indices with the aim of capturing the long-term reward of equity factors and diversifying unrewarded idiosyncratic risks to provide long-term risk-adjusted outperformance. Investors can choose to incorporate a range of risk-control options including sector neutrality and market beta adjustment. Scientific Beta also offers Climate Impact Consistent indices and a series of indices that manage macro-economic exposure at the stock level.

Scientific Beta is a subsidiary of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), and maintains its strong collaboration with EDHEC Business School, and the principles of independent, empirical-based academic research.

Protecting Australians for a century:
With Zurich, you get the best of both worlds: global expertise and a personalised approach that we’ve honed for our Australian clients over the last 100 years. An industry leader on the global stage Zurich is one of the top 3 corporate group insurers globally, protecting over 60 million customers in 210 countries. Our mission to protect people lies at the heart of everything we do.

Being there in your members' time of need:
In 2021, together we paid over $1.28 billion in life insurance claims and helped 12,125 Australians and their families. Customers can have confidence that we will keep the most important promise we make: to be there when they need us most.

Sustainability and community:
When you partner with us, you partner with more than just an insurer. Our ambition is to become one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world.