Brian Parker

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Australian Finance Podcast · Inside a $350bn super fund: How your money is really invested · 16 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah, which means we can maintain a private equity exposure that can expose us to those sort of opportunities, or still maintaining a healthy equity market exposure.

we can continue to invest in these quality assets.

For example, because we have private equity, let's say a company that we really like disappears from the stock market, it's not disappeared from a broader opportunity set because it may well be that one of our private equity managers might pick it up.

Okay.

And look, that's a nice problem to have, frankly.

And again, this is going to sound self-serving, but the reality is the big institutions do have access to a broader opportunity set than the average retail investor or self-managed super fund, et cetera.

And we get access to these opportunities generally at a cheaper price.

That's the reality of scale.

I think that's the thing.

When you are a company, when your problem is, gee, how am I going to invest $20 billion to $25 billion of new money this year, that's a nice problem to have.

And it does mean that you get seats at more tables that perhaps you wouldn't have got as an Australian institution 30 years ago.

I mean, when I first started this industry 35 years ago,

If you turned up in New York and London and you said you were from Australia, you got to see the kind of junior burger really.

I said, why should I bother with you?

You're only 1% of the world index and you're a tiny economy and aren't you near New Zealand?

That's about all I knew.

Now when you go to these places and you say you're from Australian Retirement Trust, they know who you are.

You can get in to see anyone you damn well please.

They know the Australian super system.

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