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YFYS manipulation leaves members worse off: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2022
... Further, ISA attributed the exploitation of these loopholes for the enduring gap between the best and worst performing MySuper products. In its YFYS review submission, ISA stated that in the lead up to the first round of performance tests, 35 MySuper ...

APRA proposes changes to successor fund transfers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
... undertake a complete or partial transfer of members. The regulator also flagged new requirements relating to the transfer of MySuper product assets, in the event of cancellation of an authority to offer a MySuper product. The discussion paper noted that ...

Experts weigh in on Brookfield bid for Origin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
... shareholders in Origin Energy. Rainmaker Information has conducted preliminary research of super fund portfolio holdings in MySuper default options and found that within MySuper, funds hold $1.6 billion in Origin stock alone. MySuper options constitute ...

Vanguard Super reignites fee war with launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
... Three years after it first announced plans for a superannuation offering, Vanguard is now home to one of the cheapest MySuper products - a lifecycle solution that auto-adjusts 36 times. It was back in November 2019 that Vanguard's Robin Bowerman ...

MySuper index records worst rolling return since 2009

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
The median return for MySuper products in September was -3.3%, causing the Rainmaker MySuper Index to see its worst annual rolling return since August 2009. For the 12 months to September end, the MySuper index returned -6.4%. It was dragged by the ...

Future Fund proves resilience to market shocks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022
... against a target of 6.6% per annum. For comparison, over the same period, Rainmaker Information research said the median MySuper product returned 8%. Explaining the results, Costello said: "As was anticipated by the fund, the exceptional monetary and ...

Quantifying the value of a financial adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... investors, who build their own portfolios - which comes with its own risks." Of the $1.2 trillion of assets in the various MySuper investment options, over 60% of these assets are managed to a single strategy asset allocation. This means for a member ...

First Super: Merger pressure fizzles out

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... 1% for the current financial year compared to the median industry return of -3.7%. The fund ranks in the top five for MySuper/default options over one year. This is confirmed by new data from Frontier Advisors which concludes that asset allocation was ...

NGS Super increases death, TPD premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022
... superannuation." Meanwhile, the fund has also updated its estimated fees and costs for the year. It estimates the cost of its MySuper product will increase by $15 a year, up to $525. The cost of the high growth, balanced, indexed growth and defensive ...

BUSSQ sees strength in niche super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... members." A priority for the fund is getting the returns up to where they were before. Rainmaker data shows that BUSSQ's MySuper Balanced Growth fund returned -5.0% for the year to 30 June 2022, when the market average was -3.6%. But for the previous ...