Aussie super funds discover the AUD!

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At the MBFund we often use currencies as hedges and amplifiers of returns. This is an integral part of any macro fund.

For many years, Aussie super funds ignored global stocks. That has passed in the last decade as Australia’s lost decade of growth and weak returns forced the emergence (and recent part destruction) of such global stock bellwethers as Magellan.

Now, Australia’s fattened super slugs have discovered a thing called the AUD!

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.