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Lower fees or lose advantage: ACTU

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... pressure on fees that our members pay," he said at an AIST lunch last Friday. Lyons also criticised the 'scale equates lower fees' debate, and said he is "yet to see the real benefits of scale in terms of fees" paid by members. "The reality is that [for] ...

Core and satellite approach not bulletproof: study

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... management has consistently performed worse than active management, even when passive fund returns are adjusted for their lower fees. Unsurprisingly, the study found that multi-manager configurations, which effectively combine the two, rarely achieve ...

More planners bypass managed funds: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... managed within a unit trust structure. Planners pay them fees for their 'intellectual property' and, in return for lower fees, the fund manager does not have to do all the admin-related duties attached to these model portfolios.

Maritime Super backs internal admin for merged fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... Previously, Paddy Crumlin, national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, said the merged fund could provide lower fees and better services to members. "We've had two internal funds merge [Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund and the Seafarers ...

Maritime and Auscoal Super in merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... Super, were in merger talks. "The direction Cooper's taking [is] that there is the potential for larger funds to provide lower fees and better services, but it's a case-by-case basis," said Paddy Crumlin, national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia. ...

Central plank of Cooper Review is MySuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... investment strategy is overseen by the trustee. The Review detailed what the key features of the option are, namely lower fees, easier to compare with other options, includes intra-fund advice and uses plain English in relevant superannuation documents. ...

ASX fends rivals with price cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... introduce competition into the market, the same way as reforms elsewhere in the financial services industry call for lower fees. "This is particularly beneficial for institutional investors where market impact is a large proportion of transaction costs. ...

Fund fees not coming down: Cooper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... lower compared to the outrageous contribution fees and commissions charged in the 1980s. Australia also pays relatively lower fees than other countries and overall fees in the retail sector are going down. But hinting at what could be on the final report ...

Aviva boost MLC and NAB Wealth numbers

NAB RESULTS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... in 2009. The revenues also dropped after NAB's recent customer fee campaigns in personal banking where they charge lower fees. The group has strengthened its balance sheet with bad and doubtful debts charge falling by 32.1 per cent to $1.2 billion thanks ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... options today will become members of their host fund's MySuper plan. While members will enjoy simplified reporting and lower fees under this new structure, they will have no access to the investment choice or bundled features that are now associated ...