In this Australian Finance Podcast episode, your host Owen Rask is joined by Brian Parker, Chief Economist of Australian Retirement Trust (ART), to discuss how ART thinks about runway, portfolio construction, private markets and when volatility becomes opportunity.

They cover:

- What a chief economist actually does and how ART turns research into portfolio action.

- How “super money” is different: time horizon, tax wrapper and the power of compounding.

- Geopolitics, inflation and how ART assesses signals in a multipolar world.

- AI — threat vs opportunity, productivity wins, and policy implications for workers.

- Why private assets and inflation-linked income matter in portfolio construction.

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- What does a Chief Economist do?

- How super funds invest differently (decades, not months)

- Why market volatility = opportunity

- The impact of geopolitics (Ukraine, Middle East, trade tensions)

- Inflation vs deflation: what’s really happening

- How AI could reshape the global economy

- Why diversification is the “only free lunch”

- The role of private assets (infrastructure, property, private equity)

- Why super funds can access investments you can’t

- Real returns: why inflation matters for your future

- How to think long-term about your super

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