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Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia said that one strategy to lower fees is "moving to a more passive investment regime, which might not be ideal for members." "Passive investment means they don't have access to liquid assets ...

MySuper spurred innovation and chased down fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... allocation differentials between very similar lifecycle cohorts," said Gee. "We're also worried about the increased use of passive investment as we believe active managers add value." Fryer expressed concern about the number of smaller funds that are ...

Drastically limit number of default funds: Grattan CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... believe this would also happen in Australia." Another way to reduce costs, Daley said, was to introduce mandate the use of passive rather than active investment strategies. "I have spoken to some of the architects of 'MySuper', and the response from ...

Passive FUM reaches all-time high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... index provider, cash flows to Australian listed ETFs set a new record of $1.67bn for the year to June 2014. The rise of passive FUM coincides with a number of trends within the funds management industry that have provoked institutions to reconsider the ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... there which has a positive number that I am always trying to meet." He said the anti-fee 'crusade' makes more sense in the passive versus active equities debate. Currently 13% of funds under management in AMP Capital's CIF come from SMSFs, but Lucas ...

Majority of Australians say 'no' to fossil fuel investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... showed a surprisingly high level of concern for general fossil fuel investment, suggesting a widespread but as yet largely passive opposition to the investment practices of almost every superannuation fund in Australia. However, the report also found ...

Kerr Neilson: Against the grain

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... list - it seems that a love and a passion for investing, rather than money, is what drives him on. "Investing is like passive hunting. It's great fun! So the key here is that you're always trying to outrun the competition, you're always trying to find ...

Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... better portfolio, Towers Watson said the building blocks of equity portfolios have evolved beyond market cap-weighted passive equity and active management with a third pillar - smart beta - targeting systematic factors, non-market cap stock weighting ...

Advisers show overwhelming support for ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... products they use at the core of their portfolios with advanced beta or smart beta ETFs beginning to replace traditional passive index exposures. "ETFs free part of an expense and risk budget to pay active managers in which they have a high degree of ...

Instos lose chasing high hedge fund returns

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... two and twenty [typical industry performance fee structure] for beta because you can get that virtually for free with passive funds, but when markets are rising like they did in 2013, clients put pressure on managers to keep up." Scoby adds that succumbing ...