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Industry fund lowers fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... pensions lowered the investment fees on four premixed options: aggressive (0.45% to 0.37%), growth (0.40% to 0.37%), balanced (0.35% to 0.31%), stable (0.28% to 0.26%) and capital guarded (0.28% to 0.26%). Four asset class options in account based pensions ...

Australian Ethical posts record results

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... manager has reported record inflows of $660 million for the financial year, telling Financial Standard that it's balanced MySuper offering returned 6.9% net of fees for the quarter. For the 2020 financial year, Australian Ethical's balanced option ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... better financial advice. On the investments front, Rice Warner said most APRA-regulated funds have a single diversified (balanced) fund shaped around MySuper. "Some funds have introduced lifecycle investments and/or bucketing solutions to help members ...

Best performing managed funds revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... growth) capped off the top-five in growth category at 5.7% and 5% returns for the three-year period ending May. Out of the balanced options, Macquarie's Balanced Growth Fund had the best returns over a three year period of 7.2% pa, followed by IOOF ...

Hostplus bumps cash allocation up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
Industry fund Hostplus has revised its asset allocation, bumping the allocation to cash in its balanced option up from 0% to 5%. The change to the cash allocation was effective from 19 June 2020, when the fund also reduced its allocation to alternatives ...

Balanced options in the red, but only just

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
The balanced options of the majority of the country's super funds are only just in the red after suffering through an unprecedented period of market volatility. Rainmaker Information executive director of research Alex Dunnin argues they have made ...

AMP closes ethical option to super members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
AMP has taken the AMP Capital Ethical Leaders Balanced fund off its investment menus for superannuation members. AMP super members in CustomSuper, Flexible Lifetime, AMP Flexible Super, SignatureSuper, SignatureSuper Select, SuperLeader and the Woolworths ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... many women. "Funds designed specifically for women offer very limited investment options typically with only one to two balanced or growth options. I don't believe all women can be lumped into two investment options," she said. "Choice of super fund ...

FIIG calls for taxation, regulatory overhaul

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... the Australian taxation system would promote each of the asset classes in an equitable manner, which is consistent with balanced portfolio best practice, to remove any distortion which has longer term structural and cultural detrimental effects. "Without ...

Chief economist update: Honey, COVID-19 got me sacked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... interaction and loosening of lockdown restrictions should improve demand for labour going forward. However, this is counter-balanced by the real and present danger posed by a second wave of infections. One that's underscored by the resurgence of ...