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Half of all super products cut fees: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
Almost half of all superannuation products have seen their fees cut in the last 12 months while 5% of products' fees dropped more than once. Recent analysis of 463 superannuation fund product disclosure statements by Rainmaker Information found ...

Milford makes significant board appointment

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
Milford Asset Management has announced that former Bankers Trust chief executive Gavin Walker will join the board as a director. A seasoned financial services executive, Walker has spent the better part of his career in the financial services industry ...

Super assets rise to $3.4tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
Superannuation continues to break milestones, reaching $3.4 trillion in the year to September. Thanks to a 55% allocation to equities, the latest APRA statistics show that the superannuation pool reached another record high. Some 23% of total assets ...

Orbis Australia announces leadership changes

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2021
Orbis Investment Advisory, the contrarian global asset manager and sister company of Allan Gray Australia, has today announced the appointment of Jenny Josling as chair of the company, after almost 15 years at the helm as managing director. Jason Ciccolallo ...

Cbus to create rainy day fund to cover fines

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021
Despite not currently facing any fines or penalties, Cbus has made a request to the Supreme Court for permission to change its rules to create a special pool of capital to pay any future fines. Following changes to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
The documents produced by Australia's largest superannuation funds have performed dismally in an analysis of readability, with an average score of 45.6 out of a possible 100. Ethos CRS analysed 80 different documents published online by the 10 largest ...

Super executives switching options in conflict: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
ASIC has released the results of surveillance into investment switching by super fund executives during market volatility at the start of the pandemic, finding possible conflicts of interest. ASIC looked at a sample of 23 trustees (including trustees ...

Default MySuper fees drop to 1%: Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... research Alex Dunnin saying driving fees down is the retail sector's way of competing with the not-for-profit sector. Retail fund admin fees were 3.5 times that of not-for-profit funds in 2010. This ratio has now halved but remains at 2.0 times ...

Australian Ethical overhauls longstanding fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... Ethical said. The fund was first launched in February 2010, with a wholesale version launched in January 2012. The retail fund has about $5 million in funds under management, while the wholesale FUM sits at about $67 million. The fund was launched with ...

ASIC urged to act on common ownership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
Corporate regulator ASIC was slammed for its lack of oversight over common ownership and concentration at a parliamentary committee this morning. The Standing Committee on Economics, which discussed the implications of capital concentration and common ...