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Retail superannuation funds grilled on member priorities

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... expensive, slugging low-balance members with admin fees of up 2.3%. Mulino said: "The trouble I see is that [it's] all too easy then for a fund that's underperforming or charging high fees to say it's a lifecycle and it's difficult to ...

Insurance in super is confusing: Consumers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... research suggests many of the problems encountered by members could be avoided if information was easier to find online and easy to understand. "There is now a fairly general expectation that the super website will contain such information, but the level ...

Legacy AMP Life policyholders take premium hit

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... groups that require premium increases to remain sustainable," the spokesperson for AMP said. "Repricing products is never an easy decision, but necessary. Some customers may benefit from moving to a shorter benefit period given their life circumstances ...

Retail super fund scores best customer service nod

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... Forrester Research's 2020 Australia Superannuation Customer Experience Index for its ability to provide members "effective, easy and emotionally positive experiences". Sunsuper came in second, followed by BT Financial Group's super offering and ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... be expected in an environment where a handful of outlier stocks have inflated the index, fuelled by investor sentiment and easy monetary policy." The paper said over the past few months the argument against value has become stronger, but dismisses those ...

Disruption not sustainable: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... oil which have been the reverse, will not. "The way that we see is that they are subject to little threat from tech, it's easy to say disruption is the word of the day but alumina and oil is not going to be disrupted by Software as a Service (SaaS)," ...

Superhero sets eyes on managed accounts

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... is actively trying to replace the CHESS system, its 25 years old, so I think our competitors use it because it's very easy; you just plug your website into OpenMarkets for example and away you go," Winters said. "There's not a lot of tech; there's ...

Super industry cautious on more reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... executive Nola Watson said. "The circumstances around this budget are unlike any other since the Second World War. It's also easy to forget the impact of drought and bushfires which had a jarring impact on the economy long before the pandemic took hold." ...

Multi-strategy fund launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... rates expected to stay at extremely low levels for the long-term, we saw the need for liquid alternative products within an easy to access investment vehicle that can deliver solid risk-weighted returns in volatile markets." Ferguson Hyams has been offering ...

Aussie small caps outperform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... the benchmark can only be achieved by playing around with interest rate risk and credit risk. "Credit, for example, is an easy place to goose returns. Through time, credit securities produce higher yield than highly rated government bonds. So long as ...