In brief
- Crypto balances in the country’s self-managed pension funds doubled in early 2024 before flattening around $3B by June 2025.
- Listed shares, cash, and property remain the dominant allocations in SMSFs.
- Such funds are “cautious by design,” Decrypt was told.
Australian self-managed retirement funds held A$3.02 billion (US$1.9 billion) in cryptocurrencies at the end of June, but fresh data suggest they largely sat out this year’s digital-asset rally.
These vehicles, known as self-managed superannuation funds, are private pension accounts that allow Australians to manage their own retirement savings instead of entrusting them to large industry or retail funds.
Together, these funds account for about a quarter of the…
Sep 06 2025
