SERD review paper highlights super gap in R&D investment


Trish Everingham
Contributor

Australia’s $4.2 trillion superannuation pool has been highlighted as a potential source of much-needed capital for early-stage innovation, with a new government issues paper pointing to the current system’s conservative investment culture as a barrier to research and development growth.

The federal government’s Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD) paper on investment and capital shows that superannuation funds dedicate only a small share of their portfolios to private equity …

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