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What you read in 2020

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... superannuation funds, with Rainmaker analysis in March showing the likes of AustralianSuper, First State Super (now Aware Super) and QSuper took a hit. Cumulative return data of funds showed many experienced significant losses between February 20 and ...

Retail fund ups premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... put up income protection premiums for a small group of members by 73.7% in August. Mercy Super, Tasplan, Media Super and QSuper also all increased income protection premiums recently. Many of the funds said that the Protecting Your Super and Putting ...

Government fund awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... super funds to terminate AMP Capital as the sole manager of its ethical investment option this year, with Legalsuper and QSuper doing the same. QSuper took its option in-house and was able to cut fees from 0.72% to 0.24% in the process. Lagalsuper also ...

How far are we from a trillion-dollar super fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... superannuation funds could swell to $200 billion. First in line for this is Hostplus followed by MLC, Sunsuper, Rest and QSuper. UniSuper, Cbus and HESTA will be the last ones of the bigger funds to reach the mark, per current levels of growth and notwithstanding ...

Best super, pension fund revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... ANZ Smart Choice Pension and GESB Retirement Income Allocated Pension. Rest was awarded best value balanced product and QSuper was found to be the best value super fund for young people due in large part to its accumulation account's low fees. The ...

QSuper bets on new retirement product

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
QSuper is building a new retirement product that guarantees a lifetime income, hoping to combat longevity risk and fears that retirees will run out of money. Chief executive Michael Pennisi told a recent member update that the product, while still in ...

CFA Societies adds board members, president

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... been appointed as vice president while Principle Advisory services director James Cowper has been named as treasurer and QSuper head of investment performance & operations, group governance Rein van Rooyen has been appointed as Brisbane director. CFA ...

Spaceship launches new managed fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... single-strategy products. The second on the list was Future Super (5.6%) over the period. On a longer time horizon of five-years, QSuper, Aware Super and Media Super were the best performers with 6.5%, 5.4% and 5.2% p.a. respectively.

Super fund increases premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... A $117 billion superannuation fund is changing the cost of insurance across the board at the turn of the New Year. Most QSuper members will see income protection cover go up 31%, while death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover will increase ...

AMP Capital shutters Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... Earlier this month, AMP Capital shut its four active ETFs that totalled about $55 million in assets. ESSSuper, Legalsuper and QSuper were some of the big clients that severed ties with the group in the last six months. AMP Capital's ESG team AMP ...