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Smart default fund to boost retirement incomes

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 10 JAN 2022
... The 'Smart Default' fund uses a SAAS (software-as-a-service) solution to automatically tailor the existing investment options of superannuation funds to a member's own projected retirement outcomes. Last year, 13 super funds were found to have failed ...

Mine Super refreshes investment options

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022
... billion superannuation fund Mine Super announced a suite of changes to its investment menu, which includes offering two new options to members. The options, Balanced and Indexed Defensive, launched on 20 December 2021. The Balanced option is designed ...

New trading platform to enter Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 DEC 2021
... another. With Superhero, Stake, SelfWealth, OpenMarkets and more flooding the Australian market with low-cost trading options, Moomoo will have stiff competition. CommSec, the Commonwealth Bank's trading app and platform, remains Australia's ...

Industry responds to heatmap findings

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... Briggs said that the analysis is an important wake-up call for consumers that not all MySuper products and investment options perform strongly. "Consumers should take this opportunity to become engaged with their superannuation and seek financial advice ...

MySuper heatmap offers few surprises

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... charge fees that are significantly higher than other MySuper products," APRA said. Since the first heatmaps, 22 MySuper options have ceased, accounting for $41.8 billion in funds under management. This iteration covers 75 products and $853 billion in ...

Choice products not so choice: APRA

CHLOE WALKER, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... based on a seven-year period, delivering just 2.25% p.a. and falling short of 2.55% from its benchmark. A slew of OnePath options failed egregiously. OnePath's OA Frontier - OnePath Tax Effective Income returned 5.35% p.a. but failed by 2.27%, while ...

CFS launches low cost geared index options

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
Colonial First State (CFS) has today launched two new geared index options through its $109 billion FirstChoice platform, giving investors leveraged exposure to local and global markets. The first passively managed geared investment options to be offered ...

Team turnover sees AMP Capital funds downgraded

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... multi-asset team behind AMP Capital Core Retirement, we believe it is time investors looked at other flexible asset-allocation options," Morningstar said. "This group has experienced continued staff turnover in the past three years. It has seen not only ...

Do inflows follow performance?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... states. Meanwhile, the effects are least pronounced among diversified funds, such as growth, balanced, and capital stable options. "In these cases, the range of returns is narrower and so it is less likely products stand out due to extremely highs or ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... International, Leidos, Safran and Thales. Of the funds named in the report, some only exclude such holdings from their ethical options, some exclude them subject to a threshold and some exclude controversial weapons but not nuclear weapons from their ...