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State Street SHE Index aimed at capitalising on diversity

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... members of executive teams. The findings in the United States echo those in Australia. Recent research by Rainmaker SelectingSuper shows superannuation funds led by women, or with significant governance representation, out-perform "male-centric" funds ...

Market slide widens super performance gap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... not-for-profit superannuation funds, according to Rainmaker research. In the month to 31 January, the Rainmaker SelectingSuper workplace default option MySuper Index showed a 2.3% loss, consistent with the 6.1% drop in Australian equity markets, which ...

Women-led super funds outperform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
... governance representation, out-perform "male-centric" funds by 50 basis points on average, according to Rainmaker SelectingSuper research. Released to coincide with International Women's Day, the research was based on an analysis of FY2015 and calendar ...

Super fund returns fall again in September

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... noting that this is the first time that the 10 year return has fallen below 6% since August 2012. Overall the SelectingSuper index has been sustained by international equities that returned 19.5% in the year to September 2015 buoyed by the 20% drop in ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... 4% above inflation range that is often the stated long term target for balanced funds. Despite the overall SelectingSuper index's fall to 6.5%, the index was sustained by international equities that returned 28% in the year to August 2015 buoyed by the ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
SelectingSuper has released its final MySuper performance index for 2014/15 confirming that while fund returns dipped below double digit to 9.5% due the 4% fall in equity markets in June, three and five year returns are approaching record high levels. ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper rolling 12 month performance index holding steady on 8.3% during October to December masks something more subtle - the return of performance competition into superannuation and the strong debut of life stage investing. SelectingSuper's ...

Future Fund smashes its performance target in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... facto sovereign wealth fund earned 13.2% for the 12 months to end December compared to the 8.3% delivered by the SelectingSuper Workplace default super fund index. The massive out-performance dwarfs the impact of the Future Fund's zero taxation rate ...

Super returns dip to 9.0 pct

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index fell sharply during September to return 9.0% compared to 11.1% at end July and 10.6% at end June. Three year super fund average annual returns are, however, higher at 11.7% ...