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FSI response fans default super flames

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... industry body which counts the big banks, BT, Macquarie and AMP among its membership, said in a statement that allowing all MySuper providers to compete in the default superannuation market supports the recommendations outlined in the 2010 Cooper review. ...

SelectingSuper fund award nominees announced

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... supported by La Trobe Financial, acknowledge the best funds across 14 product categories that include Super Fund of the Year, MySuper Product of the Year, Workplace Super Product of the Year, Personal Super Product of the Year, Retirement Product of ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... is still solid over the longer term. According to figures from Rainmaker, the SelectingSuper workplace default option MySuper Index fell sharply during August with 12 month rolling performance plummeting during the month from 10.7% to 6.5% by month's ...

More must be done to cut fees: FSC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... more efficient fund. Separate research from Rainmaker released recently shows that competitive forces resulting from the MySuper regulation and innovation in technology have already had an impact, lowering fees by 40% over the last five years. Rainmaker ...

Super fees almost halved in five years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... categories means that APRA-regulated funds have average TERs of 1.43%, 80% higher than the average SMSF solution. At 1.1%, MySuper fees are unchanged from 2014, though there is significant disparity between the cheapest offered, at 0.46%, and the most ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... inflation returns provides flexibility in a context of high debt, high volatility and subpar global growth. Pushed by MySuper, AMP Capital is moving towards managing most of its funds with this strategy in mind and is hoping to achieve it in three to ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland Business School showed less than 0.3% of MySuper assets are within the agriculture sector as of 30 June 2014. It also found 0.44% of listed companies on the ASX 200 are ...

MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
The requirement to charge low fees under MySuper has forced one superannuation fund to exit a Principal Global Investments (PGI) strategy that had returned 13% over five years. PGI chief executive in Australia Grant Foster said that the super fund pulled ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... running their own funds, especially in light of falling super fund returns after the GFC. But with returns improving and MySuper driving down fees for default superannuation options, members can now arguably get a better deal by staying with an external ...

MyPension product to solve retirement income hurdle

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Superannuation industry heavyweights have collectively called for a MySuper-like product to simplify retirement income for retirees. "There are $430 billion worth of superannuation savings sitting in [MySuper] products where pretty much everything is ...