# Markets Happy Hour - Live from Sydney - featuring Annette Beacher of Hesta

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Podcast: [Markets Happy Hour Podcast with Aoifinn Devitt](https://stenobird.com/podcast/markets-happy-hour-podcast-with-aoifinn-devitt-7122293)
Published: 2026-05-11T09:45:27+00:00
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## Resource

In today's Markets Happy Hour Podcast, we are back in a salon-style session - this time live from Sydney on the eve of Tuesday's budget. Our special guest if Annette Beacher, investment manager of Hesta, an Australian Superannuation fund with over AUD$100 m in assets under management. This conversation is in the usual podcast format but we include data points and discussions of Australian economic fundamentals such as the recent third consecutive rate hike by the Royal Bank of Australia, and the inflation and led to it. We discuss the unique structure of the housing market here, the role it plays for consumers, and the state of the jobs market.We spend some time on the Superannuation system and the split of assets that most clients experience, the underpinning demand for Australian equities and the need to seek return abroad too, given the rising volume of assets in the mandated system. After a breakdown of the drivers of the Australian equity market snd a comparison with the AI and tech narrative driving the US indices we bring things back to local again by looking at the likeky contents of the next day's budget.

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