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Speaker 1: The value of the New Zealand Superfund has reached a

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Speaker 1: record high seventy six point six billion dollars at the

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Speaker 1: end of financial year twenty four. It's up from sixty

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Speaker 1: five odd billion a year earlier. Posted an investment return

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Speaker 1: of almost fifteen percent after costs but before tax for

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Speaker 1: the year thirtieth of June. It means the fund paid

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Speaker 1: one point five billion in tax. The government contributions to

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Speaker 1: the fund during the year were one point six billion.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Erickson's the superannuation and superfund expert with us this morning. Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: Good morning morning, Ryan. This sounds great. Are they just

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Speaker 1: riding the stock market wave here or is this a

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Speaker 1: specific strategy that's netting the result.

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Speaker 2: Now it is the stock market wave, Ryan, but they're

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Speaker 2: exploiting that wave very well. They've always gone into a

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Speaker 2: wide range of assets all around the world, but they

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Speaker 2: are playing it extremely well and the results this year

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Speaker 2: make up for a very poor return which everybody had

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Speaker 2: when the markets went down in twenty twenty five too,

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Speaker 2: So in that sense, fifteen percent is a great return.

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Speaker 2: That The key one from my point of view is

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Speaker 2: that over the life of the fund, which has been

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Speaker 2: going for over twenty years now they've got over ten

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Speaker 2: percent peranum and that's a superb result because it's consistent

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to real estate infrastructure Timber. These are

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Speaker 1: things that the part of the active investment strategy that

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Speaker 1: they have is that is that a significant part.

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Speaker 2: Of this No, it's a relatively small part. The bulk

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Speaker 2: of it is the global share market run that's done

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Speaker 2: so well. But all these little things on the side help,

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Speaker 2: and especially in New Zealand. I think the best example

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Speaker 2: I've got right, and it's an old one now, but

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Speaker 2: Shell sold its downstream assets and the New Zealand super

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Speaker 2: Fund and Infantol joined up and boards z and now

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Speaker 2: we've got zed petrol stations throughout the country and they're

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Speaker 2: making a much better profit than when Shell owned them.

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Speaker 2: So it is adding value in a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: different ways. But as I say, the key to it

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Speaker 2: is the superb run that the stock markets had since

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Speaker 2: about October last year.

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Speaker 1: What does this mean for us in terms of, you know,

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Speaker 1: our fortunes and retirement.

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Speaker 2: Ah, it's superb because it means that everybody can enjoy

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Speaker 2: their retirement from age sixty five without feeling that, you know,

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Speaker 2: the country owes us money or the taxes having to

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Speaker 2: go up. And that's the best bit. I mean, if

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Speaker 2: it wasn't for the New Zealand super Fund, we'd be

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Speaker 2: paying more tax.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like we should have done it earlier. Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jonathan Ericson with our superannuation and super fund

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