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It's interesting to see all these really clever fund managers talking about addressable markets, economic moats etc etc but they can't (or won't) see that the Australian market has changed. The pie is getting bigger but there's no longer any room for rent seekers. There will only be a dozen big insto super funds left at the end of the consolidation and only boomer advisers are still banging away with active managed funds because their CVP is product based not strategy based.