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MySuper inches to $1tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... continued to outperform the Lifecycle MySuper Index across all age groups through the 12-month period," the latest Super Benchmarking report shows. "This marks the eleventh month of continuous underperformance of lifecycle products against single strategy ...

Jones calls for taxonomy to clarify greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023
... biodiversity and just transition are not in conflict with short-term performance concerns. "We're having a look at the benchmarking exercise that was set up by the previous government," Jones said. "I support holding trustees to account for the performance ...

Consumer interests prioritised in YFYS review

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... listening and responding to evidence-based policy." "Maintaining the approach of using current administration fees when benchmarking product performance is the best outcome for consumers as evidence from the prudential regulator has demonstrated that ...

Industry fund bags consecutive customer experience award

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
A $25 billion industry super fund has claimed consecutive top customer experience awards from Customer Service Benchmarking Australia (CSBA). Spirit Super ranked first again in CSBA's SenseCX benchmarking report, which evaluates ease, sentiment ...

HUB24 tops platform rankings

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... Netwealth and reclaimed the top spot for overall platform functionality. Investment Trends released its 2022 Platform Benchmarking and Competitive Analysis Report and said HUB24's overall score of 91.5% just edged out Netwealth, which came in at ...

Super heatmap findings garner mixed responses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... methodologies should be reviewed, not to be watered down, but to be sharpened." APRA's increasingly assertive way of benchmarking super funds' performance means RSEs have no choice but to realign their asset mix and product structures to the ...

'Our fears were warranted': Chant West proposes YFYS alternative

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... for the time being. This is in stark contrast to Industry Super Australia (ISA) which has advocated for expanding benchmarking to all APRA-regulated products - including Choice products, as soon as possible. Likewise, Grattan Institute recently argued ...

Private market investment impediments not insurmountable: Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
... touted as another area that will make a substantial difference to private market investments. Frontier noted that the benchmarking system has limitations, particularly because the determination of a strategies success is done by comparing an asset class ...

YFYS manipulation leaves members worse off: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2022
... the test consecutively is closed and its members are transferred to a product that exceeds benchmarks and expanding benchmarking to all APRA regulated products - including choice products and those in the retirement phase as soon as possible. It also ...

Magellan seeks $1m increase to director fees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
... directors and one executive director. McLennan continued the board recently engaged an independent adviser to provide benchmarking data on non-executive director remuneration; the adviser found the current fees paid were significantly below that of market ...