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Public sector super satisfaction rises

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... highest score at 72.9% followed by OnePath, Mercer, MLC and Colonial First State. Satisfaction was lower for members of retail funds run by the big four banks, coming in at 61.4%. Levine said the impact of the fall in stock valuations as a result of ...

Clime consolidates SMAs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... duplicated supplier arrangements and expand investment product availability. Project Streamline follows the closure of two retail funds, including the Clime Australian Value Fund in November. The two funds were "deemed uneconomical" and instead investors ...

Super concerns over legislation: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... Super has garnered criticism from the industry with Industry Super Australia believing the reforms will only benefit retail funds. In addition, Rice Warner has concerns over the benchmark will miss the impact on member outcomes for asset allocation - ...

Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... performance measures. Finally, the increased transparency and accountability measures can lead to potential inequity. Retail funds with backing from a parent company with a strong capital position could be promoted without using member funds. Conversely ...

Tasplan says goodbye to lifecycle MySuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... and Hostplus have stayed away. At September end, there were 25 lifecycle MySuper products. Of this, 14 were from retail funds, four from public sector funds, five from industry funds and two from corporate funds. Tasplan is not the first superannuation ...

ISA ramps up campaign against super reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... the proposed reform outlining several issues it believes favour the for-profit sector. These include; never making retail funds prove how taking in profit through party payments is in the best financial interest of members and excluding the for-profit ...

Super satisfaction bounces back

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... highest satisfaction rating ahead of Cbus, Hostplus, CareSuper, AustralianSuper, Aware Super and HESTA. Meanwhile, retail funds rose by 0.1% to 53.6% with the highest placed rating given to BT followed by OnePath, Colonial First State, Mercer and MLC. ...

AMP Capital drops fees on listed property fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... September has been better, with 8.61% outperformance to the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT Accumulation Index. AMP Capital's retail funds lineup has seen many changes this year. Earlier his month, it shut a 19-year old sustainable share fund, after its portfolio ...

ASFA adds board members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... Group general manager of superannuation) and Kelly Power (Colonial First State general manager product) represent the retail funds sector. For service providers, Jo-Anne Bloch (Mercer Administration Services leader) and Andrew Boal (Rice Warner chief ...

SMSFs are cost-effective, deliver for members

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... compared to APRA-regulated super funds, SMSFA chief executive John Maroney said. The reduction in fees in SMSFs and retail funds while the increase in fees for industry funds since the inaugural 2013 report has changed the relative competitiveness of ...