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Are you looking for a good book or podcast to enlighten and inspire you over the summer break? Our investment team are extensive readers and avid podcast listeners, so to kick off the holiday season, they’ve given us a list of their personal recommendations of 2024! We’ve included some of these below, so if you're finding these have piqued your interest, dive into the full list on our website: https://lnkd.in/g-BMPcGr Have you had a favourite read or listen of 2024? Feel free to join the conversation in the comments below, we’d love to hear your recommendations too! --------------- Andrew Ewington Book - Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Author - Serhii Plokhy Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis offers a deep dive into the flawed decision-making processes that nearly led to nuclear war. Serhii explores critical missteps, misjudgements, and poor communication between Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro. The book underscores important lessons in decision analysis, including its cascading effects, the dangers of acting on incomplete intelligence, the risks of assuming the other side’s intentions, and the value of back-channel diplomacy. For those interested in how leadership shapes global outcomes, it provides crucial insights into the weight of responsibility leaders bear and the far-reaching consequences of their choices in high-stakes situations. --------------- David Welsh Book - Blind Spots Author - Dr. Marty Makary Today, more Americans experience peanut allergies than ever in history. The root cause, the American Academy of Paediatrics recommending parents avoid giving peanut products to their children until they turned three. This advice turned out to be fundamentally flawed, inadvertently leading to a huge increase in peanut allergies driven by a lack of early exposure. A true page turner, this book delves into the healthcare system, highlighting how common misconceptions have led to incorrect treatment for peanut allergies, hormone replacement therapy, antibiotics, and many more. Blind Spots might be the most interesting book you’ll read this year! --------------- Tessa Calligeros Podcast - Founders Host - David Senra Founders offers in depth insights into the biographies and autobiographies of notable founders. I find it an easy listen and have gained many valuable lessons. Of the 350+ episodes, one of my standouts is Episode #286 on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. This podcast will teach you how best to schedule time to think, focus, learn from others, deal with mistakes, prepare to make quick decisions, and study effectively. #UniSuper #Superannuation #Investments #SummerReadingList #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat

We are ecstatic to share that UniSuper received five awards at yesterday's Money Magazine Australia ‘Best of the Best’ Awards for 2025. In particular, we want to celebrate our win for Best Pension Fund, which we’ve now received for the third year back-to-back. This award exemplifies the success we’ve had in our goal to be the Netflix of Retirement, and shows that our personalised retirement experience continues to satisfy and provide greater retirement outcomes for our members. In addition to Best Pension Fund, we also received Best Fixed Interest Super, Best ESG Super, Best Australian Shares Pension, and Best Fixed Interest Pension. Thank you to our hard-working team across Australia for everything you’ve done throughout 2024 to help us earn these accolades, and thank you to Money Magazine, it’s great to close out this year with these wins. #Superannuation #Retirement #Pension #BestoftheBest #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat 

Last night, I had the opportunity to participate in Deloitte’s panel event, “Unlocking new sources of growth: Meeting the needs of a diverse Australia” alongside other senior executives Andrew Irvine and Sujeet Rana of NAB, Ann Sherry AO of QUT (Queensland University of Technology), Sharmila Tsourdalakis GAICD of Stockland, and Tharani Jegatheeswaran and Paul Rehder of Deloitte Australia.   It was great to share conversations around how organisations need to evolve to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse community, the importance of having diverse Boards and Executive Leadership Teams to respond to changing demographics within Australia, and the approach that UniSuper continues to take with our retirement strategy.   It’s our ambition to become the Netflix of Retirement. We understand that personalising experiences is important, as each member’s retirement will be different and unique to them. Our strategy draws on a deep understanding of the range of member needs, what their preferences may be in retirement, and how they plan to spend it.   Thank you to Deloitte for having me, and to all of those that I had the chance to speak to last night.

Today is the International Day of People with Disabilities. To recognise this, UniSuper recently hosted a lunch and learn to acknowledge our members and employees with disabilities, and to discuss our current and future plans to ensure everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources at UniSuper. Nikhil Bora of ANZ, a visual designer and the tenth person in the world to receive a cochlear implant, told us their inspiring story of co-founding SignHow, an innovative start-up that has produced a global sign language dictionary for communities around the world. We also hosted a panel with UniSuper advocates who are working towards providing greater accessibility, including Logan McBean, Karl Uebergang, Ashleigh Fuller-Thompson and Brendan Donoghue, which led to interactive discussions on common problems faced by people with disabilities and how we can help them overcome them in the workplace. Thank you to Wendy Loo 卢心薇 and our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee who organised these talks, and to our Chief Member and Advice Officer Danielle Mair, who opened the event. #UniSuper #IDPwD

We’ve seen strength in share markets since the US election, but uncertainty remains as we wait for President-elect Donald Trump to enter office. What have markets been telling us so far? In this episode of our Super Informed Radio podcast, UniSuper’s Head of Fixed Interest David Colosimo gives us the latest market news, as well as the key things we’re watching out for over the coming month. To listen to the podcast in full, head to one of the links below: 🎧 Soundcloud: https://lnkd.in/gkHXthaT 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gizr4gGg 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gGjstC9i Remember, you can subscribe to this podcast on any of the above platforms to get the latest in investment news every month. And thank you for tuning into our podcasts over the year. This is our last investment market podcast for 2024, we’ll be back in February 2025. We wish you a safe and happy holiday season!  #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat

UniSuper couldn’t be prouder of our Senior Private Client Adviser, Melinda Brown, who was a finalist for Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA)'s Adviser of the Year award in Brisbane last night.   We'd like to give our congratulations to John Cachia who won the 2024 Adviser of the Year award, and Rebecca Pritchard, who was another finalist.   We were also incredibly proud to sponsor the FAAA University Student of the Year award, with three deserving finalists in Phillip Ambrose of QUT (Queensland University of Technology), Emma McKenzie of Deakin University, and Brandon Rerrie of Griffith University.    Another huge congratulations to Emma for receiving the award for 2024.    Thank you to the FAAA for hosting us, this was a great night to celebrate financial advice as we start to close out the year.   #UniSuper #Superannuation #FAAA #AdviserOfTheYear #FinancialAdvice #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat

Welcome to another episode of Know Your Assets, where our host Lyndon speaks to UniSuper’s investment managers about the things that they invest in to help your super grow. This time, you can join our Head of Property, Kent Robbins, as we take a behind-the-scenes look at Karrinyup Shopping Centre in Perth, a flagship investment in our property portfolio. If Karrinyup and other property investments are something that you might be interested in, you can head to our website to learn more about them: https://lnkd.in/gxmZaCnF #UniSuper #Superannuation #KnowYourAssets #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat 

We’re incredibly proud of the three outstanding UniSuper women who were nominated at the recent Women in Finance Awards 2024. These awards recognise the best and brightest women in the financial services sector, which included our Quality Specialist Mia Rewiri, who was nominated for Innovator of the Year, Private Client Advisor Kiran Bhullar, who was nominated for Financial Advisor of the Year, and one of our Team Leaders in Member Services Cloud Smythe, who was nominated for Young Leader of the Year. Thank you for everything each of you bring to UniSuper and the wider superannuation industry. It’s great to see so many of our people shortlisted for industry awards amongst the best of the best. #UniSuper #Superannuation #WomenInFinance #WomenInSuper #FinancialAdvisor #FinancialAdvice #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat

Our Head of Private Markets Sandra Lee in conversation at the 2024 Fiduciary Investors Symposium. She spoke about our US$400 million commitment to the Macquarie Green Energy and Climate Opportunities Fund. You can find a link to the full article available in the comments below.    #UniSuper #Superannuation #Investment #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat

American voters are heading to the polls to determine the 47th president of the United States.    So how might the US election result affect markets?   In this episode, UniSuper’s Head of Fixed Interest, David Colosimo, gives us the latest market news and discusses the US election, as well as the key things we’re watching out for over the coming month.   To listen to the podcast in full, head to one of the links below: 🎧 Soundcloud: https://lnkd.in/gRg3x3EV 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e45UPzUK 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ehsZkMVX And remember, you can subscribe to this podcast on any of the above platforms to get the latest in investment news from UniSuper every month. #ThinkGreat #CreateGreat