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FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... managers in Australia such as Platinum Asset Management and Magellan Asset Management are seeing strong inflows to their retail funds. But demand for global equities funds managed from Australia or taking Australian investors into account is only increasing. ...

Evolving super sparks C-suite shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... of larger funds and 7% of smaller funds. It must be noted that of the 72 super funds, most were not-for-profit as retail funds do not have the same disclosure or ownership of roles. Unsurprisingly the Rainmaker research showed the highest number of executive ...

Super fund returns fall again in September

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... year to September. In market segment terms these results mean that the gap between not-for-profit (NFP) funds and retail funds is continuing as within the Workplace sector the 12 month return gap is 70 basis points in favour of NFP funds over retail ...

NAB sells insurance business to Nippon Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... ninth in the list of top superannuation insurers and it serves less than one million members, most of which are from retail funds. The list is topped by AIA and followed by TAL, OnePath, CommInsure and AMP. As part of the bank's annual results, Thorburn ...

Beware 'apples with apples' super comparisons

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... fund type. She said default assets represent 65% of all assets for industry funds, compared to 17% of all assets for retail funds. "That means the investment strategy for 83% of the assets of retail funds is chosen by the members, and the asset allocation ...

TWU attacks retail super funds over board governance

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... Michael Kaine said. "Industry funds should be held up as the model that all superannuation systems should follow. Retail funds don't perform as well so why is the government not scrapping them instead of trying to drag industry funds down to their level. ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... Reflecting this, within the Workplace sector, the gap in the 12 month return in favour of not-for-profit (NFP) funds over retail funds increased to 90 basis points as NFP funds averaged 6.8% and retail funds averaged 5.9%. This is the largest gap since ...

Retail funds recommending advice fee rates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
While retail super funds post-FOFA have unbundled their embedded advice commissions, half still recommend an average 0.55% in ongoing advice service fees, the annual super fee survey from Rainmaker reveals. As a result of the compulsory adoption of ...

Industry funds challenged by lack of in-house advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... correlation between the scale of a fund's salaried and aligned planner force and the size of its pension division. Retail funds with substantial distribution forces all have more than 20% of their assets in pension mode and "there is already evidence ...

Retail funds cheer super board governance bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
Retail superannuation funds have welcomed the introduction in Parliament of the bill that seeks to mandate the presence of independent directors in boards. "With over $2 trillion currently sitting in the superannuation pool, good governance has never ...