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Half of all super products cut fees: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... products' fees dropped more than once. Recent analysis of 463 superannuation fund product disclosure statements by Rainmaker Information found 48% of products decreased their fees since October 2020. The analysis also shows that 5% of products decreased ...

APRA tells Christian Super to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... persistent underperformance, APRA said, which resulted in its failure of the inaugural performance test. According to Rainmaker data, Christian Super's MySuper option achieved 18.9% in the year to October 31, ranking 23rd overall. Over three years ...

Rainmaker executive awarded prestigious scholarship

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
The executive director of media at Rainmaker Group, publisher of Financial Standard, has been named as one of two inaugural recipients of Chief Executive Women's (CEW) Maureen Kerridge AM Scholarship. Rainmaker Group executive director of media ...

CFS targets adviser market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... It's really about modernising and improving what is already the most widely used platform in the market," Quirk said. Rainmaker analysis shows that FirstChoice leads the adviser platform market by a wide margin, with about 9738 financial advisers ...

Top investment products, super fund revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... competition is strong, and no-one has the ability to rest on their laurels from one year to the next." Money worked with Rainmaker Information, InfoChoice, WhistleOut and Carsales to assess thousands of products. To find Australia's top-performing ...

Default super delivers best performance in 34 years

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... reveals that default workplace superannuation funds achieved the best average returns of 18.8% in the last 34 years. Rainmaker reviewed more than 3200 investment options in its 2021 Super fund performance study, which are offered by 238 products, of ...

Super assets rise to $3.4tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... 56% of assets are allocated to equities, split between Aussie equities (21%) and global stocks (30%). An analysis from Rainmaker Information shows about 60% of all MySuper products reduced their fees last financial year, with the average fees paid by ...

Forum: Do managed accounts measure up?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... questions on managed accounts and Best Interest Duty (BID), portfolio returns and operational requirements. According to Rainmaker research, the managed accounts industry has surpassed the $150 billion mark and climbing. But with the industry's phenomenal ...

Women advisers drop to 21%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
The number of women working in the financial advice industry has dropped to 21% compared to 25% two years ago. Rainmaker's modelling of the September ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows that only one in five financial advisers out of the total pool ...

Unlisted unit trust conversions boost ETP sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... are managed on an indexed basis. Smart beta accounts for 13% and regular active ETPs accounts for the remaining 21%," Rainmaker said. Equity ETPs, being two-thirds international equities and one-third Australian equities, hold $79 billion or 63% of the ...