Monday 25 May 2026 4:37 am  |  Updated:  Friday 22 May 2026 4:45 pm

UK should learn from Australia’s pension funds

By: Susan Langley

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Australia’s superannuation pension funds manage trillions in assets and have developed a long-term, globally minded investment approach that many countries, including the UK, admire, writes Lady Mayor Susan Langley

At a moment of global volatility, the smartest economies are not retreating, they are building stronger partnerships. That is the context in which I will visit Australia this week as the UK’s ambassador for financial and professional services: to deepen one of our most important investment relationships and to make the case for Britain as a long-term destination for global capital.

Australia is home to one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated pension systems. Its superannuation funds manage trillions in assets and have developed a long-term, globally minded investment approach that many countries, including the UK, admire. As our two financial centres deepen their ties, there is a powerful opportunity to connect that capital with the UK’s world-leading pipeline of investment........

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