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CFS outlines post-awards plans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... adviser thus avoiding potential conflicted advice issues." Speaking more broadly about the awards system, she said retail funds like hers have "no standing" with the Fair Work Commission. "The only ones that do have standing with the FCW are the employer ...

Treasury Group's FUM up on retail inflows

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... Treasury Group, which had a 42% stake in Orion, the decision was led by Orion's own management team. The aggregated net retail funds inflow from RARE, IML and Celeste for the six-month period ending 31 December 2013 totalled $385 million, compared to ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... one choice - Media Super. In total there are 122 modern awards, with an involved review process for each one. While retail funds with MySuper products are entitled to apply to be included in modern awards, industry funds overwhelmingly dominate the lists. ...

BT reveals post-awards strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... around banking and other areas for the member - not just superannuation." She said one major selling point that the retail funds such as BT have over the majority of industry funds is their lifecycle MySuper products. In response to the question of whether ...

Altair launches two funds for retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... through the group's individually managed portfolios (MDAs) where the client has $300,000 or more to invest. The new retail funds now allow smaller clients to access these strategies at a minimum of $50,000 per fund. "We have been in conversation with ...

Retail funds close member satisfaction gap

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
Industry super fund members are more satisfied with the financial performance of their funds than members of retail funds, but the gap is closing, according to a new survey released by Roy Morgan. The survey put industry funds in the top five places ...

Lifecycle the future of pensions globally: Mercer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... Mercer senior partner Graeme Mather. Researched released yesterday by Mercer showed that while more than half of all retail funds offer a lifecycle MySuper option, less than 10% of industry funds opted for lifecycle. But Mather said this will change. ...

Retail funds favour lifecycle MySuper options

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
More than half of all retail funds offering MySuper products have adopted a lifecycle approach, while all but four industry funds have opted for static strategic asset allocation (SAA), according to research by Mercer. The release of the research, entitled ...

Retail super members more likely to switch funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... this demonstrates that consumers are paying attention to the fact that industry funds had consistently outperforming retail funds. However, he said the higher likelihood of retail members switching funds was also due to greater levels of engagement with ...

FSC questions pertinence of APRA super stats

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... between 2004 and 2013, corporate, industry and public sector funds have on average returned between 6.5% and 7%. Retail funds have on average returned just 4.9%. But FSC director of policy and global markets Andrew Bragg said the APRA stats give an "overly ...