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ETF flows up despite market underperformance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... can make money both on turnover (from the buy/sell spread) and on management of funds over time (the Management Expense Ratio) both factors are important in determining the revenue generated by an ETF. " The report looked at investor preferences and ...

Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... next five years, investment fees alone would jump from $3.1 billion to $5.5 billion - based on a 0.78% management expense ratio (MER). She said if the investment fees line was aligned with CPI rather than fund growth, fees will fall to about a 0.53% ...

Vision Super joins cost cutting frenzy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Vision Super has brought down member fees by cutting operating costs by 42% and investment costs by 25%. The fund for local government and water authority employees has said that further reductions are achievable. So far, cost cuts mean that members ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... super funds grew at 10% per annum for the next five years and investment fees were charged at a 0.78% management expense ratio (MER), fees would rise from $3.1 billion to $5.5 billion. However if the investment fees line was aligned with CPI rather than ...

IFM reveals start date for fee reduction

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has set January 2014 as the start date for its expected, wide-ranging fee reduction. The fund manager which oversees $44 billion in assets first announced the Global Pricing Review in November 2011 and had planned to ...

Coalition signals super policy changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... under management are rising strongly every year. Given the economies of scale in funds management, a management expense ratio that may be reasonable when a fund has $5 billion under management could be completely excessive when it has ten times that ...

IFM to cut fees after pricing review

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM), which oversees $44 billion in assets, is ready to set a date for its wide-ranging fee reduction, almost two years after announcing a pricing review. The Global Pricing Review was first announced in November 2011 and ...

Vanguard cuts costs on intl equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... Shares Index Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) from 0.18% to 0.15%. According to the index fund specialist, the management expense ratio on the product has fallen by an average of 10 basis points since it was listed for trading on the ASX in 2009. The move ...

Lonsec casts eye over fund fee structures

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Ratings agency Lonsec has analysed the fee structures of fund managers in its Australian Equities Long/Short peer group and discovered two funds that employ a performance hurdle of 0%. While the performance fee hurdles employed by most managers in the ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Large Companies Index that follows the 31-stock benchmark MSCI Australian Shares Large Cap Index. The management expense ratio is 0.2 per cent each year. Joseph Brennan, chief investment officer of Vanguard, said the low-cost funds would complement their ...