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ASIC's SMSF report being misread

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... loading for investment costs would still keep the overall fee below benchmark fees charged by not-for-for-profit and retail funds as described in the recently released Rainmaker super fund fee survey report. Peter Lalor, general manager and CFO of SMSF ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... competitive in comparison to APRA regulated funds, while SMSFs with $200,000 or more are competitive with both industry and retail funds provided the trustees undertake some of the administration. For balances of $250,000 or more SMSFs become the cheapest ...

BUSSQ members happiest in Australia

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... share of the new entrants to the labour market and those who change jobs, so it's critical for both industry and retail funds to own that space going forward," Helmes said. Other ageing chestnuts dealt with by the report were the rise of SMSFs and the ...

Super returns climb to 16.8 pct

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... year returns are climbing strongly and are now 4.5% pa. Not-for-profit funds achieved 12 month returns of 17.5% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 15.3%. The segment gap has thus lengthened to 2.3 percentage points. The top five Workplace ...

Super assets hit $1.6 trillion, investment returns at 4-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... growth in self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), the 15.3% growth in public sector funds, the 13.7% growth in retail funds and the 10.0% growth in corporate funds. The strong growth of industry funds relative to other sectors suggests that the product ...

Treasury Group records $10m profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... the previous year," Treasury Group chief executive Andrew McGill said. "We have seen a trend towards higher margin retail funds in our FUM mix which significantly contributes to the Company's profitability and return to shareholders." Treasury Group ...

Direct investment option key to retain fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
... AMP, MLC, HESTA and Colonial First State. "If we consider the leakage to SMSFSs that all funds are grappling with, retail funds have lost the largest proportion of members to this segment," Saiz said. "In particular, those that through our behavioural ...

Retail funds ruled out of corporate tenders on MySuper lack

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013

Super fund average 14.6% for 2012-13

STAFF WRITERS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... returns are climbing above inflation and are now 3.8% pa. Not-for-profit funds achieved 12 month returns of 15.2% but retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 13.5%. The segment gap is thus 1.1 percentage points. The top five Workplace super ...

New deal opens Europe to Aussie AIFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... managers to manage and market Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) - including hedge funds, private equity funds and retail funds - in the EU under the rules of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The arrangement includes most ...