{"id":477350,"date":"2026-05-10T06:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477350\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:31:29","slug":"australia-reviews-pension-test-as-concerns-grow-over-investment-distortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477350\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Reviews Pension Test as Concerns Grow Over Investment Distortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Australian government is moving to tighten an annual performance test for the nation\u2019s A$4.5 trillion ($3.2 trillion) pension industry as concerns grow the current model may be steering investment away from some sectors.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The government has <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.treasury.gov.au\/c2026-763205\" title=\"link to statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">launched<\/a> a public consultation on the test, which measures pension fund performance against a set of benchmarks, according to a statement from Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Friday. Introduced five years ago, the test was designed to weed out under performing funds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian government is moving to tighten an annual performance test for the nation\u2019s A$4.5 trillion ($3.2 trillion)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[19849,195,1128,79,366,18,1729,22540,3428,19,17,188,234,235,11782,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-477350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-alternative-investments","9":"tag-apple-inc","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-fund-manager","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-personal-finance","21":"tag-personalfinance","22":"tag-superannuation","23":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116548880599613855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477350","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=477350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}