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SelectingSuper awards super fund of the year

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... employers in understanding the comparative merits of their superannuation funds we have seen exciting innovations, lower fees, better and smarter offerings, and more options tailored to customers' needs," Rainmaker Group head of research Alex Dunnin ...

Retail funds cheer super board governance bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... choose their own superannuation fund. Legislation currently denies Australians joining superannuation funds which haveA lower fees than some default funds."

Price is wrong for supermarket super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... industry funds beat retail funds in terms of overall member satisfaction (76.9% versus 64.7%). Respondents also cited lower fees (54.2%) and better returns (53.6%) as being the most important ways funds can improve member engagement; in fact, 69.1% said ...

Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Pressure to lower fees is forcing superannuation funds to look for new ways to deliver returns at a low cost and some are starting to think the solution might be in smart beta. Head of HSBC Global Asset Management in Australia, Geoffrey Pidgeon, told ...

Retail funds get behind campaign to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... saying that superannuation fees could easily be lowered. "The Financial Services Council welcomes reforms to deliver lower fees to working Australians," FSC chief executive Sally Loane said. Even if traditionally retail MySuper products have higher fees ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... Financial Services Council (FSC) Conference in the Gold Coast. Benefits did arise from scale with larger funds exhibiting lower fees. However, there is a significant reduction in this benefit once funds reach $800 million under management. Comparing ...

Strong passive flows force managers to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
Flows into passive strategies have forced active fund managers to lower their fees, global research by US-based management consultant Casey Quirk has found. Passive strategies accounted for 93% of total net new flows at registered products in the United ...

Lonsec launches ESG metric

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... relative to return or to competing alternative options. "By providing a forward looking view that compares like products, lower fees should no longer be used as a sole justification for product recommendations."

Internalisation has gone the full circle say CIOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... stability and you have control." Merlicek said smaller super funds had to have competitive products and one of the tools to lower fees was reducing the fund's investment management fee. "Of course passive [products] or investing in smart beta and internalisation ...

FSC backs Commission on choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... MySuper default funds to the market. Allowing all MySuper products to compete for default fund status will deliver lower fees." In its latest discussion paper, Options for Law Reform, the Commission said it received submissions from the Transport Workers' ...