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Group insurance using shoddy data: Rice Warner

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... insurance premiums in the 2020 financial year alone. With the onset of regulatory reforms, it appears that insurers and super funds aren't able to stay on top of new legislation and reflect the changes in their data. For example, the complexities of ...

MySuper eyes growth asset returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
MySuper products are achieving near growth-like returns yet incurring investment risk closer to that of balanced products on average, new research shows. Rainmaker's latest RMetrics report found the 55 MySuper funds analysed delivered three-year ...

Bad year for super funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
Three in four superannuation funds reported negative net earnings last year, after accounting for all expenses and income. About 109 superannuation funds had a negative year, while only 33 had a positive year, according to APRA's fund-level data for ...

Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... employees' super arrangements. The second concern involves first-time entrants to the workforce and new immigrants. Super funds will likely position themselves favourably to these potential members but will need to be careful they don't breach ...

MySuper performance recovers, hits record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... underperformed while property options also failed to deliver above the benchmark. "Despite this systemic underperformance, some super funds deliver stellar returns. Vision Super has Australia's top-performing investment option. It delivered 69%," ...

Super funds back COVID-19 preventative drug

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
Four major superannuation funds are backing a biotech company that is developing a nasal spray that claims to prevent COVID-19 and the common cold. AustralianSuper, HESTA, Hostplus and Statewide Super have joined forces with CSL, a venture capital fund ...

Super underperformance needs to be addressed: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JAN 2021
... be confronted. The Rainmaker 2020 Superannuation Benchmarking Report found that across several major asset classes, super funds struggle to match asset class indexes. Rainmaker executive director of research and compliance Alex Dunnin said that while ...

Super fund targets homegrown opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 JAN 2021
... always look at opportunities to create scale, in the best interests of members. If we have to, we will talk to other super funds to get scale. "However, there is something unique we can create here in South Australia rather than losing a local fund to ...

Super industry to branch out: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... appropriate outcomes to members." The way in which funds invest will also change, according to the report, as well as super funds potentially dipping their toes into other markets outside of super. "Funds could leverage their strong investment capacity ...

Super funds boost stake in US toll roads

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
AustralianSuper and UniSuper have bolstered their investments in a major road development based on the east coast of the US. Together with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), the superannuation funds will acquire a 50% stake ...