Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) and growth/defensive split changes

We made changes to the SAA and Growth/Defensive split on 1 October 2025. All changes are bolded with the previous values in brackets.

Asset Classes MySuper Growth (%) MySuper Conservative Balanced (%)
Australian Shares 25 (26) 17
Global Shares 31 (29) 21.5 (19)
Private Equity 5 4
Property 6.5 (8) 4.5 (6)
Infrastructure 7.5 (7) 5
Alternatives 0 (2) 0 (1)
Fixed income – credit 13 (12) 11.5 (11)
Fixed income – diversified 7 (6) 24
Cash 5 12.5 (13)
 
Growth 75 (79) 54 (55)
Defensive 25 (21) 46 (45)

Impact of the MySuper Growth and MySuper Conservative Balanced SAA changes on the MySuper age-based SAAs

MLC MySuper provides a mix of growth and defensive assets that change depending on your age. This is done by combining the MySuper Growth, MySuper Conservative Balanced and MySuper Cash portfolios. As a result of SAA changes in the underlying portfolios, there have been some minor changes to the SAAs and Defensive/Growth splits at the MLC MySuper age level.

The table below summarises the changes. All changes are bolded with the previous values in brackets.

Asset Classes Under 55 At age 55 At age 56 At age 57 At age 58 At age 59 At age 60 At age 61 At age 62 At age 63 At age 64 At age 65 and over
Australian Shares 25 (26) 24.5 (26) 24.5 (26) 24.5 (25) 24 (25) 24 (25) 23.5 (24) 23.5 (24) 23.5 (24) 22.5 (23) 21.5 (23) 21 (22)
Global Shares 31 (29) 30.5 (29) 30.5 (28) 30 (28) 30 (28) 30 (27) 29.5 (27) 29 (27) 29 (27) 28.5 (26) 27.5 (25) 26 (24)
Private Equity 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4.5 (5) 4.5 (4) 4.5 (4)
Property 6.5 (8) 6.5 (8) 6.5 (8) 6.5 (8) 6 (8) 6 (8) 6 (8) 6 (8) 6 (7) 7 6.5 (7) 6.5 (7)
Infrastructure 7.5 (7) 7.5 (7) 7.5 (7) 7.5 (7) 7 7 7 7 7 (6) 6 6 5.5 (6)
Alternatives 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2)
Fixed income – credit 13 (12) 13 (12) 13 (12) 13 (12) 13 (12) 13 (12) 13 (12) 12.5 (12) 12.5 (12) 12.5 (12) 12 (11) 11.5 (11)
Fixed income – diversified 7 (6) 7.5 (6) 7.5 (7) 8 (7) 9 (7) 9 (8) 10 (9) 10.5 (9) 10.5 (10) 10.5 (10) 10.5 (10) 10.5 (10)
Cash 5 5.5 (5) 5.5 (5) 5 (6) 6 6 6 6.5 (6) 6.5 (7) 8.5 (9) 11.5 (12) 14.5 (14)
 
Growth assets 75 (79) 75 (79) 74 (78) 74 (77) 73 (77) 72 (76) 72 (75) 71 (74) 70 (74) 69 (72) 66 (70) 64 (67)
Defensive assets 25 (21) 25 (21) 26 (22) 26 (23) 27 (23) 28 (24) 28 (25) 29 (26) 30 (26) 31 (28) 34 (30) 36 (33)