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Life insurance risk inflows reach $14.2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... master funds. The report concentrates on the market shares held within the life industry funds and not the overall retail funds industry.

Hyperion closes funds to new investors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
Hyperion Asset Management is soft-closing its retail funds and has already completely closed its institutional business to new inflows. The soft closure for retail investors will take effect as at 30 April 2015. The fund manager will no longer accept ...

SMSF growth driven by investor satisfaction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... retail, industry and self-managed funds. SMSFs scored the highest with a satisfaction rating of 77.3%; industry and retail funds scored 59% and 56.3% respectively. Overall satisfaction has increased by 4.5% to 58% Although the report notes that performance ...

Super funds turning to passive to tackle high fees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... rather than active investment management.A The percentage of assets passively managed by a representative basket of retail funds has risen from 24.0% in 2011 to 46.6% in 2013. The Financial System Inquiry has put the spotlight on superannuation fees ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... 10 year average annual returns at 6.6% pa. Not-for-profit (NFP) super funds achieved 12 month returns of 11.3% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 12.0% - meaning retail funds have extended their lead over NFP funds from 0.1 percentage ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... the top 20 products. Reinforcing the depth of the retail improvement, only half the bottom 20 MySuper products are retail funds whereas prior to MySuper the bottom of the default option league table used to regularly be dominated by high cost retail ...

Parametric grows investment team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... consulting team for two years, providing risk and investment advice to a broad range of clients that included foundations, retail funds, corporate funds, industry and government super funds.A He also worked with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.A ...

Retail funds still unable to match industry fund popularity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... member satisfaction with their financial performance, a Roy Morgan survey confirms. Industry funds have been ahead of retail funds every month since the Roy Morgan Single Source survey began to ask about superannuation satisfaction in 2002. Satisfaction ...

Industry fund brands stronger than retail

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... they are well acquainted ('external raters'). The study reveals that on average, industry funds scored better than retail funds across all brand aspects, particularly on perceptions of Value - a critical switching driver for those making an active choice ...

Super modern awards anti-competitive: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... industry, government and corporate super funds, which constitute 95% of MySuper listings in the 122 modern awards. Retail funds, meanwhile, only account for 5% (83% of retail funds with MySuper products approved by The Australian Prudential Regulation ...