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Price is wrong for supermarket super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... Inwood. The report also analysed member engagement in respondents' current funds, and found that industry funds beat retail funds in terms of overall member satisfaction (76.9% versus 64.7%). Respondents also cited lower fees (54.2%) and better returns ...

Retail funds get behind campaign to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Retail superannuation funds have entered industry fund territory and admitted that high super fees need to be lowered. The Financial Services Council (FSC), which represents the retail side of the superannuation industry, has stated that "superannuation ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... far the legislation is yet to get past lobbying interests. "What we have is an unannounced tripartite war between retail funds, industry funds and self-managed funds and they all want to be bigger. Each one is fighting for its vested interests and it ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... alternative assets, resulting in the segment - lead by public sector funds - extending its recently regained lead over retail funds. Within the Workplace sector, the 12 month segment gap is 0.6 percentage points as NFP funds averaged 9.7% and retail ...

ISA voices strong opposition to "radical" super reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... said. ISA's submission argued that "the proof is in the pudding, with industry funds outperforming bank owned retail funds by 2% over the eleven years to June 2014, while avoiding the scandals that have plagued the vertically integrated for-profit ...

Super fund members switching at record rates: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... switchers. The report said BT Super for Life, ANZ Smart Choice and CBA Essential Super were the major beneficiaries where retail funds are marketed directly to banking clients. Rainmaker Information has previously highlighted this inflow growth. Analyst ...

WaveStone to manage long-only mandate for Mercer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... investment approach. The boutique is attracted to innovative and growth stocks at low valuations. WaveStone has several retail funds and has been managing a long-only portfolio for wholesale investors since 2007. The portfolio has delivered 9.1% annualised ...

Australian Ethical to list on mFunds platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
Australian Ethical Investment has lowered the minimum investment amount for its retail funds and will soon list many of its products on the ASX mFunds A platform. Among a raft of changes, Australian Ethical has also expanded its product suite by launching ...

Boutique to manage $150m for NZ Super

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... and the transition of the mandate is now complete. Aside from institutional mandates, Mint has developed several retail funds such as the Australia New Zealand Active Equity Trust, the Mint Australia New Zealand Real Estate Investment Trust and the Diversified ...

Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... said this marks the end, for the time being at least, of the four month reign at the top of the segment tree for retail funds. But the long term segment gap is still 170 basis points in favour of NFP funds. According to the survey, the main drivers of ...