It said the plan, which the council intendstofund via private investment and national sports funding, would mean that 97% of Manchester residents lived within 20 minutes of a swimming pool.
As thefund does not employ leverage or derivatives for risk management, Exante intendsto provide a two-way secondary market for the trading of fund shares.
It intendsto use some of the revenues from the RSPT tofund a cut of a couple of percentage points in the general corporation tax, in an effort to boost other Australian businesses and thus rebalance the economy.