BC Strategy Insights
No Time to Waste: Australia’s 5-Year Race to 80% Recovery
♻️No Time To Waste: Last year, Australia committed A$450M+ to protect national parks and preserve the Great Barrier Reef, natural assets critical to its identity and economy. Yet despite this investment in preservation, Australia still buries a third of its waste. With recovery stuck at 67%, the nation is 13 points short of its 80% recovery target by 2030, landfilling ~10M tonnes each year the gap persists.
➡️Australia Isn’t the Recycling Leader You Think:
A 67% recovery rate looks respectable, until you stack it against the 68% achieved in the more populous United States, Norway’s 80%, and Singapore’s 97%.
Super at a Crossroads: Why Retail Funds Will Vanish by 2040
Australia’s super system is consolidating rapidly, actively shaped by regulation toward scale, compliance, and improved member outcomes, underpinned by future viability. This structural realignment is increasingly leaving Retail funds behind, which are now on a one-way trajectory to fade out.
In 2014, there were more than 200 super funds. By 2024, that number had fallen to 85. Projections for 2035 suggest only 15–20 will remain. APRA’s soft viability benchmark now sits at ~$30B in assets under management, and 60 of the 85 funds fall short of that threshold. As this consolidation accelerates, a clear rationale has emerged for why funds merge.
Digital & AI: Which Infrastructure and Complex Services Providers Pull Ahead and Why
As part of a recent strategy engagement, we benchmarked >40 global infrastructure and complex services providers to understand how Digital & AI are reshaping their growth and client value delivery.
Firms progress along a three-step maturity curve