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First hard MySuper APRA data released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... QSuper with $25 billion and CBUS with $24 billion - which together make up half the MySuper market. In the retail sector BT Super For Life has $3 billion, MLC $1 billion, ANZ Smart Choice $960 million, AMP $800 million and CBA Essential Super has $310 ...

Partners Group fund added to major platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Global private equity investment manager Partners Group has had its Partners Group Global Value Fund accepted onto the BT SuperWrap and Macquarie Wrap platforms. Partners Group Global Value Fund provides investors with exposure to a mature private equity ...

Advertising won't grow membership, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... of either CBA Essential Super or Colonial First State, and NAB and Westpac both have 9.6% (who are members of MLC and BT Super for Life respectively). Elaborating on the importance of 'utility', CoreData said: "The most critical choice drivers for consumers ...

Retail funds also guilty of 'Compare the Pair' vagueness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over use of the term 'average' in reference to super funds. Both BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice Super have used the word 'average' in recent advertisements without clarifying exactly what ...

Industry heralds government capital recycling plan

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
An agreement between the federal and state governments to incentivise asset sales which have the potential to boost the economy has been welcomed by the superannuation industry. The federal government wants to encourage states to sell businesses and ...

Super social media yet to excite members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
Social media usage by super funds generates much more excitement among the funds themselves than it does among its members, reveals research by Rainmaker. The research company reached this conclusion following a survey of social media activity among ...

Banks' super products set to be next industry battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Superannuation Vicki Doyle told Financial Standard. Westpac's full year results showed that the number of customers for the BT Super for Life product rose 26%, with sales at almost 1,600 products per week. BT launched the Super for Life product five ...

Twitter usage on the rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... respectively. Retail wealth management brands are not faring much better, however, as AMP has only 1540, CFS 1420 and BT Super For Life 439. But where the retail wealth sector has the advantage is using the considerable brand power of their home bank ...

Westpac and BTFG group get MySuper approval

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... nears retirement. BT Financial Group general manager of superannuation Deanne Stewart said, "Five years ago we launched BT Super for Life, a low-cost superannuation account for all Australians." According to research from Rainmaker, BT Super For Life ...

CBA launches MySuper compliant product

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... structure is very simple which is five dollars per month and 0.8% per annum," Chun said. Westpac's similar style product BT Super for Life was launched in 2007, but Elkin's said the CBA wanted to wait until the launch of its low-cost option. "We saw ...