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SelectingSuper Awards recognise super leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... 18. The awards recognise the best superannuation providers and industry leaders in Australia, and include the MySuper Product of the Year, Super Fund of the Year, best workplace, personal and retirement Products, best self-managed super fund administration ...

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... offer less than five. In February 2013, Sunsuper became the first Australian super fund to launch an APRA-approved MySuper product - and it was a lifecycle fund. Sunsuper says its lifecycle investment option helps members not to lose sleep "worrying ...

Beware 'apples with apples' super comparisons

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... said APRA and other people critical of performance comparisons need to remind themselves what choosing a default MySuper product actually means. Rainmaker said some critics of performance comparisons use commentary about risk-adjusted returns to explain ...

SelectingSuper fund award nominees announced

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... Trobe Financial, acknowledge the best funds across 14 product categories that include Super Fund of the Year, MySuper Product of the Year, Workplace Super Product of the Year, Personal Super Product of the Year, Retirement Product of the Year, Consumer ...

Super fees almost halved in five years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... significant disparity between the cheapest offered, at 0.46%, and the most expensive, at 1.8%. The lowest price MySuper product that is publicly available is offered by a major bank for a TER of 0.60%, illustrating the ferocity of price competition stemming ...

MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
The requirement to charge low fees under MySuper has forced one superannuation fund to exit a Principal Global Investments (PGI) strategy that had returned 13% over five years. PGI chief executive in Australia Grant Foster said that the super fund pulled ...

MySuper impacts AMP investment revenue

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
A greater share of assets entering lower-fee MySuper products is affecting AMP's investment related revenue. The group's investment related revenue for the first half of 2015 was 113 bps, a 4.2% reduction from the prior corresponding period. AMP said ...

Retail funds get behind campaign to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Retail superannuation funds have entered industry fund territory and admitted that high super fees need to be lowered. The Financial Services Council (FSC), which represents the retail side of the superannuation industry, has stated that "superannuation ...

Bendigo wealth earnings fall 20pct despite acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... former leader of advocacy group GetUp and is Australia's first fossil fuel free superannuation fund. Bendigo's MySuper product Smart Start Super saw funds under management get close to $500 million, up from just under $400 million in December 2014. Bendigo's ...

Frydenberg slams modern awards as poorly-conceived

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said there is a significant opportunity for the government to reform the current "poorly-conceived" selection process of default superannuation funds. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual ...