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Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... returns also reflects the strong debut of life stage investing options within the MySuper sector as most of the eight retail MySuper products in the top 20 were life stage options. Indeed the top four products at end December were retail products: IOOF ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... SmartChoice Super, which was the cheapest public offer MySuper product on the market. The data also showed that retail MySuper products had marginally outperformed industry fund products. If retail funds continue to reduce fees and lift returns, they ...

Retail MySuper transition too slow: ISA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... workplace default account balances have been transferred across into MySuper products, raising concerns the slow retail MySuper transition is costing retail super fund members hundreds of millions of dollars in extra fees. Rainmaker analysis of the MySuper ...

Super returns dip to 9.0 pct

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... not-for-profit (NFP) super funds achieved 12 month returns of 9.3% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts and retail MySuper products) achieved 7.9% for a segment gap that has bounced up again to 140 basis points. The researcher said the long-term ...

Retail funds deny relying on passive investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... Industry Super Australia, for example, recently said: "Wholly indexed investment approaches embraced by the cheapest retail MySuper products have on average underperformed comparable Industry SuperFund balanced options on a net basis by 83 basis points ...

Low cost retail jumps 82pct

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... gathers pace in the next 2-3 years the FUM weight of this product class will grow rapidly by about $100 billion from retail MySuper products that will combine with not-for-profit MySuper default assets to reach an estimated $500 billion.

First hard MySuper APRA data released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... transition, MySuper FUM has almost tripled in annualised terms in the past year notwithstanding the transition in retail MySuper products is much slower than among not-for-profit MySuper products. Life stage investing has also been found to play a much ...

Activist Simon Sheikh launches fossil fuel free super fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... with the average retail fund but high versus the 1.1% fee for the average directly distributed fund and the 1.3% retail MySuper average, according to soon to be released research from Rainmaker. "The fees are at the lower to middle end of costs for ethically ...

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... less expensive funds even before the fee is subtracted. Industry Super Australia (ISA), meanwhile, claimed that retail MySuper products were on average more than 25% more expensive than MySuper products of the Industry SuperFund group. Like AIST, ISA ...

MySuper authorisations creep up to 78

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... their MySuper hand, however, include Mercer, Russell, Perpetual, netwealth and Fiducian. The increasing pace of retail MySuper authorisations also masks the different strategies retail wealth groups are using to enter the sector. For example, CommBank/CFS ...