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Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... fees but because it hasn't lowered them enough. Given that MySuper has already taken a sledgehammer to workplace super fund fees (especially those charged by retail groups) for the FSI to say this is stunning. So expect a ramp up in indexed investments ...

MySuper fees approaching KiwiSaver best practice

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
While there is lots of self flagellation over super fund fees in Australia, Australian fund fees may be closer to best practice than we realise. In a submission to the Financial Systems Inquiry (FSI) by the New Zealand Council of Financial Regulators ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... be forbidden but they should come with a disclosure regime similar to a surgeon's general warning." Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... be forbidden but they should come with a disclosure regime similar to a surgeon's general warning". Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by ...

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), said that the unfavourable comparison between Australian super fund fees and those of international funds was misleading. "With regards to international pensions, most have a greater allocation ...

Super fees fall to 1.23%

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
Super fund fees have fallen to 1.23% but increased to $18.6 billion on the back of rising assets under management, reveals new research from Rainmaker. The researcher has just released their annual superannuation fee report that analysed fees offered ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... lowering of total retail superannuation prices," noted the report. Rainmaker said the headline result is that super fund fees overall, weighted by segment FUM, have been found to now average 1.26% of assets under management, down from 1.32% in 2008. ...

MySuper legislation introduced

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... establish the core framework for MySuper products," said Shorten. Currently there are no monthly statements for super fund fees, yet Shorten said members are paying around $85 a month in fees, with 60% of Australians not making active choices in relation ...

Fees secondary to return: Qantas Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... if not better than their peers overseas. In October last year, Deloitte Actuaries and Consultants reported that super fund fees are below or just above the magic number of "below 1 per cent" industry-wide fees, long advocated by the former super minister ...

Cooper throws down super gauntlet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... whether competition initiatives have failed, to whether the government should run a default super fund, and to why super fund fees are not showing the expected scale effects. Cooper said we've got to be able to ask tough questions, like "why do certain ...