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New super benchmarking flawed: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
The government's new Your Future, Your Super investment performance benchmarking is flawed and will have unintended consequences, according to Rice Warner. Rice Warner said the proposed package to implement some of the recommendations by the Productivity ...

Magellan's largest client asked to review costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... PrimeStone having little concern over SJP's business model (including the use of external active managers) nor the performance and costs of external managers used by SJP," Credit Suisse said in a note. "With MFG's strong fund performance we do ...

ASFA proposes MySuper test

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... that fail the annual APRA-administered test twice not be allowed to receive any new members until they improve their performance. "The inefficient design of default arrangements means members can fall victim to the 'unlucky lottery' in which they may ...

Rest increases admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... financial year have meant that investment costs for some options were lower than estimated, due to factors such as reduced performance-related fees and reduced property purchasing costs." The estimated fees for Bonds, Shares, Australian Shares and Overseas ...

Tasmania remains best performing state: CommSec

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... relative population growth and third on relative unemployment, while Queensland is in joint sixth position on the performance rankings with Western Australia and the Northern Territory. CommSec chief economist Craig James it sees compression in the rankings. ...

Gender doesn't influence company returns: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... period of each new director appointment, finding gender did not influence returns. However, the study observed that the performance of companies with boards comprised of more than 90% men was generally worse than more gender diverse boards since 2011. ...

AustralianSuper ratings slide at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... illiquid assets and capacity in Australian equities. "Our enhanced ratings approach emphasises benchmark-relative performance, and we are mindful that few multisector strategies have excelled against this marker. That said, AustralianSuper's differentiated ...

Industry fund updates investment fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... which caused an increase in indirect costs," ACSRF said. "The investment changes added significant value to the fund's performance in these sectors and resulted in a higher investment fee due to the payment of performance based fees to some of our investment ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... losses of 15.1% in the Euro Stoxx-50 index and 23.4% in the FTSE-100, or even the Nikkei-225's almost flat (-0.1%) performance. Not to mention (but I have to), the Nasdaq composite index's 28.4% surged so far this year goes against all logic ...

Future Fund asked to table detailed fee spend

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... has inched down in the last three years from 1.57% to 1.13%. The recent financial year saw the spend plunge 23% as performance fees went down during COVID-19. September quarter results saw 1.1% in returns, and 10-year performance now sits at about 9% ...