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Consumer interests prioritised in YFYS review

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... demonstrated that this focus has reduced administration fees for consumers of MySuper products." Likewise, Super Consumers Australia (SCA) director Xavier O'Halloran praised the government's YFYS review for its plan to test some of the highest-free ...

Super performance test consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... will be updated in a bid to make the test more accurate. The new test will expand the international unlisted property benchmark to a greater geographical allocation. Australian and international unlisted infrastructure will be updated to a median version ...

Jones releases Your Future, Your Super review outcomes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
The federal government has released the outcomes of its review into the Your Future, Your Super laws, flagging among many findings, that it will "fine-tune" the performance test and extend the performance period to 10 years. Starting with the highly ...

Another Aussie mandate for Apex Group

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
... local funds Yarra Capital Management and Capital Prudential. "Following the integration of Apex Group's acquisitions in Australia, we have continued to see strong client demand in the first quarter of 2023, for our expanded suite of services, driving ...

Industry fund bags consecutive customer experience award

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... 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 and success ...

Alternatives investors await more corrections: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... experienced their toughest year since the Global Financial Crisis, which according to Preqin's All-Strategies Hedge Fund Benchmark declined by 6.75% at the end of 2022. Some 64% of investors said their hedge funds met their expectations, while only 8% ...

Active fund managers historically underperform: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... SPIVA Scorecard reveals. Nearly 79% of active fund managers focused on Aussie equities underperformed the S&P/ASX 200 benchmark in 2022. Over a five-, 10- and 15-year period, underperformance rates ticked higher at 81.2%, 78.2% and 83.6% respectively. ...

Women-led super funds outperform over medium, long run

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
Women-led MySuper products have outperformed on average by a consistent 0.3% per annum over three, five and 10 years, new analysis shows. Rainmaker Information looked at the performance of 18 women-led MySuper products, being those with women in senior ...

LIC hunts for investment manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023
... companies. In HGV's annual report, chair Peter Wall said: "Whilst the board is pleased that HGV materially exceeded its benchmark, we appreciate that shareholders expected positive returns more aligned with the broader global equities market." Wall added ...

NGS Super taps Robeco for major equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... generating excess returns above the benchmark is what is important in a [Your Future, Your Super] YFYS world." Head of Robeco Australia Stephen Dennis said that enhanced indexing strategies offer advantages over traditional passive strategies, as it ...