Replying to @⁨hitmyspot@aussie.zone⁩

Bind yields are up and will continue to increase, because countries are moving from defined benefit- to contribution based- pension scheme’s.

Which makes bonds and the guaranteed returns a less interesting investment vehicle. The big pension market under transition right now is the Netherlands, but it’s a general trend across the globe that countries have been moving from defined benefit to contribution based schemes.

Replying to @⁨BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk⁩

However, they are good for stock markets and large projects as investment vehicles, so they do hekp government, businesses and can be used to promote projects that benefit their members, eg union based ones can promote tjeir own industry.

The suoerannuation funds in australua have now grown large enough in aggregate to be market movers.

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