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Global equities enjoy strongest year since 2013

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... returning 1.3%, down 0.6 percentage points on its 2018 figures. Separately, research released by Rainmaker last week shows geared super funds also enjoyed a stellar 2019, thanks in part to the bull run in financial markets which also powered the returns ...

Geared super funds hit jackpot

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
Latest research shows that geared super funds enjoyed a stellar 2019 thanks to a bull run in financial markets. According to new Rainmaker research, the top 10 geared retirement and superannuation funds achieved returns in excess of 50% in the 12 months ...

Hostplus makes bid for SMSF money

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
The $43 billion fund is hoping to woo self-managed superannuation fund investors with new options geared at them. SMSF investors will have access to six of Hostplus' 23 investment options, including its flagship balanced option and the low-cost ...

Super leaves retirees vulnerable: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
Older Australians are feeling the pressure of a retirement system geared towards superannuation, according to National Seniors Australia. The report, launched in conjunction with Challenger, shows over a quarter of retirees who claim they can't tolerate ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... firm, the PC missed an opportunity to highlight how super members retiring on after-tax returns are penalised by a system geared towards pre-tax investment. The firm's managing director of research in Australia Raewyn Williams said the PC "stopped ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... union movement that banks have no place in superannuation "due to their systemic under-performance." "Any system which is geared towards promoting the best performing funds would promote industry funds which have year after year outperformed all bank-owned ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... over time, we would expect to see rental yields increase, possibly even to the point where they start to become positively geared." A separate issue is the measures people will then consider in reducing their personal taxable income. "Personal super ...

Aussie super asset allocation "riskier": Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... "risker" assets such as equities. According to the report, the asset allocation of Australian superannuation funds is heavily geared towards equities, with 45% of assets allocated to equities. The asset manager said Australia's equity allocation ...

New super fund joins forces with GBST

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... experience to Superestate and their members." Superestate has two investment options. The first, Superestate Property 25, is geared towards those who are "seeking growth but who wish to lower the risk of rapid changes in value over the short term." It ...

Industry fund launches lifecycle default option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... outcomes. For example, members saving for residential property; aiming for high regular income streams via an equity fund or a geared share fund, Block said. "Instead of looking at super backwards, members can look forward and ask what they want to achieve ...