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Equip drops super fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... for accumulation and pension members from February 2016. Fee and cost cuts at the $7 billion fund have come from investment fee reductions for all Equip investment options except cash, and from the removal of the 0.08% operational risk levy that has ...

ClearView launches first SMA service

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
ClearView Wealth has upgraded its full service wrap WealthSolutions and introduced a separately managed account (SMA) feature. The changes have been made across WealthSolutions superannuation, retirement income and investments. Advisers, non-superannuation ...

QSuper investment philosophy revealed

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
The investment philosophy at QSuper is being continually debated but the fund's strategy has performed "as hoped for", producing stable returns despite random outcomes of markets. QSuper repositioned its investment strategy over the past six years post ...

Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... consulting Fiona Trafford-Walker told the AIST investment conference that super funds were already taking charge of investment fee structures. She said if super funds grew at 10% per annum for the next five years, investment fees alone would jump from ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Breaking down the link between superannuation fund growth and investment fees would reduce costs remarkably, according to Frontier Advisors director of consulting Fiona Trafford-Walker. Trafford-Walker said if super funds grew at 10% per annum for the ...

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Australia's "slow to innovate" investment platform landscape could be threatened by the arrival of overseas "zero-margin" providers, according to Bravura Solutions research. Referencing economist Jeremy Rifkin's The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Bravura's ...

SelectingSuper CompareOnline enhances research depth

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... 2,500 fee options as well as the multitude of extra benefits available through super funds and platforms." "The investment fee data coverage now encompasses more than 11,000 investment choices, making it, we believe, the most comprehensive fee database ...

Grattan issues new report on super fees

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Following on from its controversial "Super Sting" report in 2014, Grattan Institute has released a new report that continues to argue Australia's superannuation industry has excessive costs. The report, titled " Super Savings ", reiterates Grattan's ...

Rice Warner consultant criticises MySuper fee disclosure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Rice Warner consultant, market insights Nathan Bonarius has criticised standardised fee disclosure for MySuper products, arguing it allows funds to distort their fee structures. Although Bonarius applauded the intent behind the standardisation of fee ...

MLC multi-manager funds get highest rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
MLC has been awarded the highest rating - '5 Apples' - by research house ChantWest for its range of multi-manager funds. ChantWest identified the flagship 'Horizon 4 - Balanced' fund, which returned 6.8% per annum in the 10 years to June 2014 (after ...