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CBA Group Super posts -7.7% returns for March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
CBA Group Super's balanced option returned -7.7% in March quarter amid COVID-19 volatility, pushing its one-year returns into the negative territory while longer-term remain buoyant. The average not-for-profit superannuation fund's posted -9% ...

ISA warns Aussies off locking in losses

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... "At the last major market decline - during the Global Financial Crisis - savers who moved their money from an average balanced industry fund into cash were $4000 worse off after three months, $13,800 after a year and $34,800 worse off after five years," ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... diversified portfolios proving more popular than single stocks. "That is helping them to manage their investments in a balanced way which also helps to smooth out the volatile swings we have seen in the market," he said. Burns said CommSec had stood ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... were surprised to learn their retirement savings weren't quite as safe as they thought, reigniting the debate around 'balanced' investment options. XY Adviser chair Andrew Rocks took to LinkedIn to share his thoughts on the state of super, saying: "As ...

Multi-asset results mixed in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
Although all men may be created equal, multi-asset strategies are most certainly not, with returns from balanced, growth, moderate and flexible strategies producing wildly different outcomes during the COVID-19 sell-off. In its latest report, Morningstar ...

Your super is safe with us: Silk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... are highly experienced specialists and they're focussed on you and your super," Silk said. Silk told customers that its balanced investment option, where the majority of members have their super, is now returning negative 7.4% on a financial year basis ...

Diversification pays off for some, but not all: bfinance

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... coming in second. Interestingly, respondents were mixed on their predictions for the future. "Optimists and pessimists are balanced in almost equal measure when it comes to expectations for the 'most likely outcome' from an economic standpoint," bfinance ...

Super funds revalue unlisted assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... the value of its unlisted assets to the tune of 7.5% on average, leading to a 2.2% reduction to the fund's $126 billion balanced option on Monday. AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk said the "unique" circumstances facing the world had led the fund ...

Volatility hits super funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... hit of some kind to their recent performance. According to AustralianSuper's cumulative return data, the fund's balanced option returned a result of approximately -13.3% over the period between February 20 - when the market peaked - and March ...

Stopping SG is nuclear response to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... are smoothed out overtime." ISA used the opportunity to remind people that those who moved their money from an average balanced industry fund into cash were $4000 worse off after just three months and would have lost $46,000 over seven years. "It is ...