The Future Fund: Fight on for Aussie’s future prizes

The Future Fund, created last year to cover long-term pension liabilities for the Australian federal public sector, is very much in its infancy but is finally managing money.

The new rulers of finance

Getting the basics right

Financial institutions weigh up the opportunities

Temasek: A fund apart? The fund has A$60 billion ($52.4 billion) under management but has yet to do much with it: at June 30, when last disclosed, 75% of the portfolio was in cash. That figure becomes 91% if a slab of 2.1 billion Telstra shares, inherited from the state during the T3 privatization sale in February and to be held in escrow until 2008/09, is excluded.

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