FTSE ASFA Index Series

Gain a clearer picture of super investment performance.The FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series offers a broad investable coverage of the Australian equity market in addition to tax-adjusted indexes.

Enhanced benchmarking for superannuation

Superannuation funds in Australia rely on indices to benchmark their fund’s performance, communicate this to their members, and to assess the performance of their fund managers. Traditionally, superannuation funds have used indices calculated on a pre-tax basis for benchmarking purposes. This can create a misalignment between superannuation funds and their fund managers as some investment decisions are attractive on a pre-tax basis but harm after-tax performance.

As a result, an increasing number of superannuation funds are now measuring their fund managers on an after-tax basis using the FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series.

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Daniel Mulino MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

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Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.