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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 ...

Fund manager dismisses super fund fee demands

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
While institutional investors have a tendency to negotiate aggressively on the amount they pay for fund managers' expertise, Platinum Asset Management chief investment officer Andrew Clifford said cutting fees does not automatically result in better ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Fees paid by super fund members are falling but not because fund prices are falling, it's because of the dampening effect of self-managed super funds and higher balance members qualifying for discounts. The results are contained in the latest Rainmaker ...

KiwiSaver 5 years going strong

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... performing KiwiSaver fund at March was OnePath earning 6.4% for the 12 month period, also the largest fund. Its total expense ratio was 54 basis points, which while above average for KiwiSaver funds, is staggeringly low compared to Australian super f ...

UniSuper responds to criticism

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... arrangements. It has out-performed the market in eight of the last 10 years and charges accumulation members a Total Expense Ratio of just 0.75%, noted the researcher. DB members pay no explicit fees, these being picked up by sponsoring employers. The ...

Lower fees or lose advantage: ACTU

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... According to the 2010 Rainmaker Fee Review, not-for-profit funds charge 1.05 per cent in fees (based on a total expense ratio which includes member, administration and investment fees). On the other side of the fence, retail funds charge 2.09 per cent. ...

Europe fails at fee disclosure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... "hormonised the definition and communication fund fees towards investors", however no single definition of the Total Expense Ratio (TER), exists in Europe, noted the report. PwC noted there was a lack of consistency with how fund managers disclosed the ...

One fund to fight lost super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... Fees and costs in particular have been a contentious issue among lost super providers and their clients. The total expense ratio for a member's account with $1,000 is 3.82 per cent or $38. The TER ranges from a low of 1.55 per cent ($16) to a high of ...