PERFORMANCE TEST

Superannuation

While all MySuper products successfully passed the latest performance test, trustee-directed products encountered difficulties....

Financial planning

Licensees are figuring out how to navigate the annual superannuation performance test to avoid any clients being stuck in affected funds and whether they need to start ru...

Financial planning

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has opened a consultation into the design of the annual superannuation performance test, canvassing views on a range of reform options....

Superannuation

There is scope for superannuation licensees to further reduce their fees, particularly in trustee directed products, according to an APRA report....

Superannuation

APRA has announced 96 trustee directed products and one MySuper product failed to meet the benchmark of its 2023 superannuation performance test....

Financial planning

The FAAA has warned advisers to be alert if their clients are in an underperforming super fund as this month’s APRA performance test is increased to certain trustee-direc...

Superannuation

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has confirmed changes to the Your Future, Your Super model to ensure all trustees, including Choice funds, are held to acc...

Superannuation

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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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

Shadow assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, says he agrees with superannuation performance testing but that he will review the Your Future, Your Super benchmarking metrics...

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Superannuation

The Your Future, Your Super reform overlooks different investment approaches a trustee might take, including environmental, social and governance investing, according to ...

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Superannuation

Data from the prudential regulator has found members of underperforming super funds are not moving in significant numbers, despite receiving communication about the perfo...

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Superannuation

The corporate regulator has been probed on if it has been investigating whether Industry Super Australia engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct regarding claims of su...

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Superannuation

The prudential regulator is open to improving the system, particularly as it expects to include Choice products next year, but it wants to keep it simple for consumers....

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Superannuation

The corporate regulator intends to monitor members from underperforming super funds from being swayed into an untested fund that is in reality performing worse, however i...

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