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Australia's Compulsory Superannuation System Is the World's Fourth Largest Savings Pool
“So that's created today the fourth largest savings pool in the world.”
QIC Doubled Queensland Motorways Value in Four Years to Fund State Pension
“It had two toll roads when we acquired it, And then we added three other toll roads that the city owned, and we built a network company. And then we sold it four years later for about a two times money multiplier, which was a great deal for the Defined Benefit…”
Privatized Australian Airports Are Primarily Owned by Superannuation Funds
“The airport sector, by way of example, which was privatized in the late nineties, early 2000, has really been owned largely institutionally by superannuation funds.”
Large Pension Funds Are Internalizing Direct Infrastructure Investments for Yield
“Well, we've seen a, like a large number of very big pension funds go direct. There's an internalization that is occurring. They are attracted to the duration of the assets, the cash, yields that come off that, particularly in this point in the cycle where yiel…”