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Latest APRA stats show drop in super assets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... billion the previous year. Corporate funds accounted for the biggest fall in assets falling 5.1% to $54 billion. Retail funds lost 2.6% of their total assets, falling to $532 billion. Self-managed super funds were up 0.2% to $590 billion, total public ...

Extra features not always beneficial for super funds

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... option, only 15% of workplace funds offer these compared to more than twice (35%) of personal funds - particularly retail funds," Dunnin said. He cautions that for some members this can make their super funds difficult to understand and funds need to ...

AMMA adds voice to superannuation choice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... professionals to those on minimum wages, have the right to choose where to direct their superannuation, to choose between retail funds, industry funds and competing products, or to not exercise superannuation choice and stay in default arrangements," ...

Retail managed funds rose strongly in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... lower than those reported in the corresponding September quarter. All leading companies reported increases in their retail funds under management with some of the better performances recorded by Macquarie (38.5%), AMP (6.3%), BT (6.2%), Commonwealth ...

FSC salutes choice reforms, ISA calls for more transparency

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... David Whiteley, meanwhile, said the benefit to consumers will be minimal due to "weak" disclosure requirements from retail funds. "The new laws only require funds to produce a public dashboard for their top 10 products, denying consumers simple, accessible ...

Market slide widens super performance gap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... funds. In this case, there was an 180 basis point edge for NFPs over a 12-month period, with NFPs averaging 1.5% and retail funds averaging negative 0.3%. The top-performing workplace funds included in the research for the 12 months to 31 December 2015 ...

Women-led super funds outperform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
... focused on these products to control for different investment strategies, fee mixes and corporate trustee structures; retail funds were excluded both because of their different management structures and because multiple super products tend to be overseen ...

ASIC cracks down on social media SMSF ads

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... factors that will contribute to whether an SMSF is better performing or lower cost to consumers than industry and retail funds." Finally, Urban Seed Project Marketing displayed videos on YouTube which linked to a website promising "SMSF qualified" and/or ...

Returns gap fuels 'dashboard' debate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... between the relative performance of both segments and overall market performance. Specifically, over that period retail funds tended to only outperform during periods of strong market returns; not-for-profit funds, conversely, were usually the only funds ...

New super data adds more disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... comprised exempt public sector superannuation schemes. SMSFs and small APRA funds accounted for 29.3% of total assets; retail funds held 26.5%, industry funds held 21.5%, public sector funds 17.3% and corporate funds held 2.7%. Fees paid totalled $12.6 ...