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MLC MySuper switches to lifestage

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
MLC is switching its default superannuation product from single strategy to lifestage. It's also increasing its allocation to growth assets. MLC MySuper currently has a 70% allocation to growth assets like stocks, property and infrastructure and ...

MYEFO sees bond issuance drop

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... Rainmaker said. Despite capital markets uncertainty, through the past 12 months the average portfolio weighting of single strategy MySuper products to fixed interest has held steady at 13%, the researcher added.

Super fees outpace asset growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... while the average annual return for life stage options for a 40 year old was 9.9% - above the average return for single strategy funds. The performance over multi-year time periods continues to benefit from the positive impact of the generally high returns ...

MySuper approaches $650 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... products. Looking at age cohorts in the 12 months to March 2018, lifecycle products materially underperformed single strategy products in the 50-59, 60-64 and 65 years and older age cohorts. However, there was matched or better performance in the under ...

MySuper milestones monitor industry movement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... that ongoing change in the super industry has led to some innovation at the product level. "Tasplan moved from single strategy to lifecycle, while Virgin moved from fund level to product level under Mercer. MLC has consolidated a range of products into ...

Roaring forties produce super member tailwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... analysis. Rainmaker research shows lifestage (also lifecycle) MySuper returns for 40-year-olds have outperformed single strategy MySuper products in the 12 months to June 2017. On average, MySuper lifestage products for people in their 40s returned 11.6% ...

MySuper lifecycle funds lead the pack

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... still hold the largest share of MySuper assets, at 66% of the total assets, and led the way in asset growth for single strategy MySuper products. Cbus saw a net growth of 13% in total assets; HESTA increased by 11%; AustralianSuper by 9%; and REST Industry ...

Lifestage funds outperform early

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... per annum for cohorts younger than 40 years. In contrast, lifestage products for older age cohorts underperform single strategy funds as the asset mix moves to being more conservative. This underperformance is 1.2% for 60 years plus or three times the ...

Lifecycle funds startlingly varied

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... for their circumstances." This variation in risk profile is not unique to default lifecycle products. MySuper single strategy investment products have a range of growth assets in the default option at June 2015 from a low of 50% to a high of 93%. However ...

MySuper assets rise strongly

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... at June 2015, the retail lifecycle funds represented 1.98 million member accounts, with additional members in single strategy retail MySuper funds. As the balances accumulate for the members in these new retail accounts it is likely that the assets share ...