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Super assets rise to $3.4tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... milestones, reaching $3.4 trillion in the year to September. Thanks to a 55% allocation to equities, the latest APRA statistics show that the superannuation pool reached another record high. Some 23% of total assets are invested in Australian equities ...

Westpac to combine Advance super with BT Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... options and about 3460 member accounts (down 19% in two months). Average member had $58,000 in balance, according to APRA statistics. "BT Funds Management Limited...the Trustee of Advance Retirement Suite, has decided to transfer all member interests ...

Challenger to buy industry-fund-owned bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... million. It expects the bank to break even from FY22. Bell Porter says opportunity bigger than it seems According to APRA statistics at October end, the bank had $166 million in total resident assets. By this measure, it is the third-smallest ADI of ...

ERS sees Cbus members forfeit TPD cover

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... third of the average superannuation retirement balance of the so called average superannuation member per the APRA statistics," Arter said. "That member is more than twice as likely to still have a mortgage compared to the general population. Of course ...

AIA Australia appoints behavioural economics lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... year ending March, taking a significant hit from the previous year's profits of $759 million, according to APRA statistics for March quarter.

COVID-19 deepens life insurer losses

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... the year ending March, taking a significant hit from the previous year's profits of $759 million, according to APRA statistics for March quarter. The life insurance industry had $185.3 billion in total assets at March end after falling 20.1% in 12 months. ...

Industry split over super fee hike

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... "reduces the funds available to cover administration costs, products and services for all members". According to APRA statistics, in June 2019 AustralianSuper had 241,000 accounts with a balance of less than $1000. Half of all its accounts have less ...

Concerns over rise of the mega-fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... appoint an active manager but it's not particularly easy if you have an internal team running the money," he said. APRA statistics show that in the 12 months to September 2019 the number of APRA-regulated RSE licensees fell from 126 to 114. "Some of ...

AMP given the boot by AFL

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... financial advice through Shadforth Financial Group. The AFL fund had $145 million in assets at June end, according to APRA statistics. Hostplus's MySuper option has better performance and is cheaper than AMP Signature Super's MySuper option. ...

Industry fund revamps MySuper offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... total of 0.84% p.a. to 0.95% p.a. EISS Super's MySuper option had $1.42 billion at June end, according to APRA statistics. The 11 bps rise in default members' fees as a result of the investment profile change equates to an extra $1.56 million ...