Australian pension fund QSuper betting big on US real estate

Future Fund said its annual return of 11.3% was also slightly lower than the 11.5% it reported the previous quarter, but still beat its self-imposed return target of 5.6%.

Thanks to Australian laws requiring employers to contribute at least 9% of a worker’s salary to a pension, superannuation funds are the world’s third-largest pool of pension assets, worth about $1.9 trillion.