{"id":382839,"date":"2026-03-13T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382839\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:45:07","slug":"how-australias-superannuation-became-one-of-worlds-largest-pension-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382839\/","title":{"rendered":"How Australia\u2019s Superannuation Became One of World\u2019s Largest Pension Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">At A$4.5 trillion ($3.2 trillion), Australia\u2019s pension system is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiansuper.com\/global-investors\/who-we-are\/superannuation-system\" title=\"https:\/\/www.australiansuper.com\/global-investors\/who-we-are\/superannuation-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">fourth-largest<\/a> pool of retirement savings in the world \u2014 and the fastest-growing among major markets. It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpmorgan.com\/insights\/securities-services\/future-of-superannuation-report\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jpmorgan.com\/insights\/securities-services\/future-of-superannuation-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">expected<\/a> to overtake the UK and Canada by the early 2030s to become the second-largest globally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">While the US has by far the largest retirement pool in dollar terms, Australia punches above its weight when assets are measured against the size of its economy. The sector now equals roughly 150% of Australia\u2019s gross domestic product and is forecast to approach 250% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aofm.gov.au\/investors\/wholesale-investors\/investor-insights\/trends-demand-ags-superannuation-sector\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aofm.gov.au\/investors\/wholesale-investors\/investor-insights\/trends-demand-ags-superannuation-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">by 2060<\/a>. That scale makes it a powerful source of capital across the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At A$4.5 trillion ($3.2 trillion), Australia\u2019s pension system is the fourth-largest pool of retirement savings in the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[1128,79,995,1360,18,3427,9207,3428,19,17,188,234,235,254,11782,5792,393,12158],"class_list":["post-382839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-eire","tag-explainer","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-private-equity","tag-superannuation","tag-sydney","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-dollar-spot"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116220993409208209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}