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ISN to APRA: get on with it

... relative terms for quite a while as eight of the twenty best performing funds, measured by default options, are master trusts. Keevers said Rainmaker monitors returns each month for more than 200 super and retirement funds and several thousand investment ...

NFP super beats retail over 10 yrs

Not for profit superannuation funds outperformed retail master trusts by more than 2 per cent per year in the past 10 years, new research found. Rainmaker Information modelling found a worker in a not-for-profit super fund earning $50,000 with $50,000 ...

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... SelectingSuper performance figures, not for profit funds are averaging twelve month returns of -16.3 per cent while corporate master trusts are only 100 basis points behind on -17.3 per cent. SelectingSuper reports that one year ago the gap was 400 basis ...

Super assets drop to $1.03trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... their assets fell only 7 per cent during the last year, followed by industry funds that fell 9 per cent, corporate master trusts that fell 12 per cent, public sector funds that fell 14 per cent, corporate funds that fell 16 per cent and retail funds ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... super funds, a transition that is expected to force APRA regulated entities to provide data on the specific funds, master trusts and products they offer in the market. Currently many institutions report on hypothetical pooled vehicles that many groups ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... reforms that saw contributions double in 2006-07 as high income earners poured money into self-managed super funds and master trusts to beat the deadlines. "A pensioner is not out there earning $150,000 a year. There is a question about fairness in Australia ...

Platforms should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Master trusts and wraps should be consolidated into a single government run platform to drive greater efficiencies and lowers costs. Wade Tubman, a director, and Annie Liao, a senior manager in the actuarial practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... the superannuation provider without manual intervention. SuperConnect's software is currently used by public offer master trusts, industry super funds, employer groups directly and payroll bureaus including Australian Wealth Management, Skandia and the ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... funds. This contrasts with their previous league tables that showed peformance of the sub-segments: industry funds, master trusts, corporate funds and public offer funds. The release of the data has sparked much industry debate with the financial services ...

Master trusts and industry funds drive risk growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Employer master trusts and industry funds will provide more risk insurance over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries research. The actuary's research found life risk insurance sold within employer master trusts is expected to grow at ...