Australia's pension system with Paul Watson

This week on the podcast, we chat to Paul Watson about the Australian superannuation system. 

Paul has spent years as a senior executive in the superannuation fund world, most recently at Hostplus, one of Australia’s largest supers.

We learn how the value for money debate has been ‘run and won’ in Australia, how Aussie superfunds got to grips with investing in private markets and why the Aussies are moving in the opposite direction to the Brits when it comes to retirement decision-making. Paul also offers his advice to UK policymakers as the Pensions Investment Review moves forward. 

Paul stresses to us that Australia’s pension system isn’t perfect, either. He tells us the one thing he would change if he were pensions minister for a day, why the Brits are arguably doing engagement better than the Aussies and offers us some great advice. 

We so enjoyed exchanging notes with Paul – and we hope you learn as much as we did from the conversation.