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Couples can benefit more than singles in SMSFs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... cost savings to be made. Rainmaker estimates that for a single member with a balance of $500,000 the average total expense ratio (TER) is 0.82%, while for an individual in a two member fund with a balance of $500,000 the average TER is 0.58%. The cost ...

Super insurance premiums rise again

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... annual cost would be about $5.50 per week, Rainmaker analysis shows. On a $100,000 balance this represents a total expense ratio cost equivalent of 0.29%, up from 0.26% in the previous year. Price increases for Death and TPD cover have not been consistent ...

Super fees almost halved in five years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... bottom lines, according to the latest comprehensive survey of the sector by Rainmaker. The average super fund total expense ratio (TER) has fallen from around 1.9% in the 2008/2009 financial year to just 1.16% today. Rainmaker estimates that at this ...

Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... in funds under management over the past five years. On the flipside, Rainmaker says the average super fund total expense ratio (TER) has dropped 40%. And there is more room to move on superannuation fund investment fees. Frontier Advisors director of ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... on custodians. Rainmaker recently completed its 2015 Rainmaker super fund fee survey and found the average Total Expense Ratio (TER) across Australia's superannuation system has continued to contract to now be just 1.16%. System-wide fee revenue is now ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... Prugue said. This means that "if you add a 3% or 4% discount on top of the management fee, you are getting a total expense ratio higher than if you had gone into a traditional managed fund." The most extreme example is the AMP Capital China Growth Fund ...

Australian Ethical reduces super fee

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... sharing the benefits of that growth with our members." The reduction translates into a 15% reduction in the Total Expense Ratio for the Australian Ethical MySuper product, according to Rainmaker. But with a revised TER of 1.54% it will still be among ...

Media Super doubles investment menu

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... each respective fund adopts must reflect its membership. Despite the investment menu expansion, Media Super's total expense ratio (TER) is estimated by Rainmaker to be 0.75% making it one of the lowest cost funds available. Offering so many choices for ...

MySuper fees approaching KiwiSaver best practice

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
While there is lots of self flagellation over super fund fees in Australia, Australian fund fees may be closer to best practice than we realise. In a submission to the Financial Systems Inquiry (FSI) by the New Zealand Council of Financial Regulators ...

First State Super cuts investment fees

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
First State Super has radically reduced the investment fees across its domestic and global equities and fixed interest investment options, in some cases by more than 80%. The previous investment fee, for example, of the fund's Australian Equities option ...