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Consumer interests prioritised in YFYS review

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
Industry groups have welcomed the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) review's focus on consumer interests by targeting poor performing super funds. Responding to yesterday's release, Financial Services Council (FSC) commended the government for ...

Super performance test consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... will be updated in a bid to make the test more accurate. The new test will expand the international unlisted property benchmark to a greater geographical allocation. Australian and international unlisted infrastructure will be updated to a median version ...

Jones releases Your Future, Your Super review outcomes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
The federal government has released the outcomes of its review into the Your Future, Your Super laws, flagging among many findings, that it will "fine-tune" the performance test and extend the performance period to 10 years. Starting with the highly ...

Industry fund tops performance tables

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
... tables. This time it sits in fifth place on 6.7%, followed closely by its merger partner Hostplus on 6.6%. Three-year benchmark indices for MySuper Default Option Index returned 5.3%, Rainmaker Growth Index returned 5.8% while Rainmaker Balanced Index ...

Retail super fund pulls the plug

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
... investing. However, Rainmaker Information analysis of its product fees and total expense ratio revealed that it was above benchmark for a personal product. At the time, Rainmaker said: "Elevate needs to raise FUM and revenue very quickly to survive a ...

Another Aussie mandate for Apex Group

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
... launched this month, aims to generate long-term after-tax returns for Australian resident investors in excess of the benchmark after fees, including an annual gross dividend yield (including franking) that exceeds the gross dividend yield of the benchmark. ...

Industry fund bags consecutive customer experience award

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... performers. Though, IOOF had a small sample size, it noted. Spirit Super achieved an overall score of 68.3%. The sector benchmark was 52.7%, and the lowest performer scored 48.4%. Spirit Super chief executive Jason Murray said the result showed that ...

Alternatives investors await more corrections: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... experienced their toughest year since the Global Financial Crisis, which according to Preqin's All-Strategies Hedge Fund Benchmark declined by 6.75% at the end of 2022. Some 64% of investors said their hedge funds met their expectations, while only 8% ...

Active fund managers historically underperform: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... SPIVA Scorecard reveals. Nearly 79% of active fund managers focused on Aussie equities underperformed the S&P/ASX 200 benchmark in 2022. Over a five-, 10- and 15-year period, underperformance rates ticked higher at 81.2%, 78.2% and 83.6% respectively. ...

Morningstar launches managed accounts portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... option invests in 85% defensive assets and the remainder in growth assets. It aims to outperform the asset-weighted benchmark over a rolling three-year period. The six portfolios charge investment management fees of 0.275% per annum, which includes GST. ...