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Super funds turning to passive to tackle high fees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Passive investment strategies are now being used by almost half of retail super funds, according to research by ING Direct which highlights that funds with high fees could end up costing investors more than $150,000 compared to cheaper funds. The research ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

Law should stop banks "bundling" super: ISA

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... that 26% of employers had been approached by a major bank about transferring default employee super to the bank's retail super fund. In these cases, just under half were offered incentives, which were generally "a direct benefit to the business rather ...

MLC fund is Roy Morgan retail super fund of the year

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
MLC-owned Plum has been named retail super fund of the year by participants in Roy Morgan's customer satisfaction awards. Given the same award last year, Plum is MLC's main corporate super provider. "This award is testament to our commitment to delivering ...

Grant Thornton appoints former KPMG principal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Accounting and financial advice group Grant Thornton has recruited Madeleine Mattera as national head of financial services and an audit and advisory partner. In her new role, Mattera will oversee Grant Thornton's financial services capabilities. Mattera ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... over the longer term than workers who made active choices about where to place these contributions, or were sold retail super funds by financial advisers," a newly-released ISA white paper on behavioural economics said. The ISA argued that the Murray ...

FPA deal with Cbus sparks super fund interest

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has received expressions of interest from several superannuation funds keen on striking referral deals similar to those signed with Cbus and Sunsuper. FPA chief executive Mark Rantall told Financial Standard ...

OneVue launches new platform

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2015
A new retail investment platform developed by OneVue has gone live. Known as brightday, OneVue described the new tool as "a low-cost single platform solution for everyday Australians wanting a greater say in the management of their investments." It ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... implementing his recommendation is: if it ain't broke, don't fix it." The Financial Services Council (FSC), representing retail super funds, banks and other large industry stakeholders, welcomed the recommendation. FSC chief executive John Brogden said ...

Retail MySuper transition too slow: ISA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... have been transferred across into MySuper products, raising concerns the slow retail MySuper transition is costing retail super fund members hundreds of millions of dollars in extra fees. Rainmaker analysis of the MySuper statistics released last month ...