retail funds

Superannuation

Industry funds v Retail – real or just noise?

The rhetoric around the industry versus retail funds debate appears to have overshadowed years of cooperation between the two industry segments, according to a submission...

Funds management

Trustee Partners approves DomaCom for retail super

Trustee Partners have approved the inclusion of the DomaCom Fund as an investment option for their retail superannuation fund....

SMSF

Treasury apportions equal guilt in superannuation

Federal Treasury officials says retail super funds cannot be singled out for criticism and have cited industry fund failings around sponsorships, marketing activities and...

Superannuation

More super more satisfied

Retail funds and self-managed superannuation funds have outstripped industry funds for member satisfaction mostly due to higher account balances, according to the latest ...

Superannuation

Retail and industry funds performance gap widens

While it is known that industry funds dominate performance, it is less known that the gap between industry and retail funds is widening, according to Industry Super Aust...

Superannuation

Retail funds beat industry funds for female directors

Retail funds have beaten industry funds for numbers of females and independent directors they have on their boards....

Superannuation

Data confirms super exits following Budget changes

Superannuation is expected to have an outflow of funds as a result of the Budget super changes with retail master funds and wrap platforms the major beneficiaries, accor...

People & Products

Netwealth adds new managers

Netwealth has announced further expansion of its retail managed account offerings, adding Elston and Quilla to its managed accounts menu....

Features

Ethical investment – what price?

An increasing number of Australians are looking to pursue ethical investments outside of superannuation but, as Mike Taylor reports, there is a concern that some planners...

Superannuation

Retail funds will struggle to be defaults

It will be the end of some retail funds if investment returns are the focus of the default super fund criteria, SuperRatings believes....

Superannuation

Retail funds will move to younger clients

Retail funds will increasingly focus on the younger cohort of members as their balances rise and the older cohort begin drawing down their wealth and head towards retirem...

People & Products

Industry veterans appointed to NAB super board

Alan Schoenheimer and Andrew Gale have been appointed as non-executive directors to the board overseeing NAB’s new super structure....

Superannuation

APRA debunks super switching mythology

Switching a member from an industry super fund to a retail master trust does not necessarily make them worse off, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Author...