SUPERANNUATION

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Super funds’ asset allocation is a more influential element on their performance than their size or scale, research by Frontier Investment Consulting concludes....

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The super system has been a “major success” with a majority of retirees saying compulsory super has given them a comfortable retirement, according to a new survey....

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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has revealed that five funds have failed to meet the benchmark of its second MySuper performance test....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is calling on superannuation trustees to improve the effectiveness of target market determinations after a sample rev...

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Sydney-based fund manager Antipodes Partners has won a $1 billion mandate with leading industry super fund HESTA....

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SuperRatings has analysed super fund performance in line with the Government’s performance test criteria and found that 90% of trustee directed options are estimated to p...

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Minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, has announced Your Future, Your Super performance tests will not be extended beyond MySuper products this year as well as ...

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The prudential regulator is pushing for superannuation funds to merge to deliver member benefits but some are facing ‘consolidation indigestion’ in the process....

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ASIC has conducted a review into how superannuation funds communicated their performance test failures to members, revealing some may have risked misleading members....

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Net assets per adviser in self-managed superannuation funds have more than doubled since 2019 as the adviser exodus means remaining firms are taking on more clients....

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Analysis from SuperRatings predicts that approximately 20% of superannuation options will fail this year’s performance test due in August....

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Major shifts in the constructions of portfolios should not occur until a more permanent outlook on the global economy is gleaned....

 

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