The annual assessment reviews all superannuation products across their performance, fees, insurance, operations and extra benefits.
164 products passed all the benchmarks to receive the rating, an increase of eight products from the 2023 assessment, from 449 open products being available in the market.
48 superannuation funds have at least one product with a AAA Rating, and there are currently 130 super funds according to Rainmaker Information’s latest Superannuation Benchmarking Report.
The number of funds with at least one AAA rated product dropped from 56 to 48 since the 2023 ratings.
The decrease is largely due to the continued impact of consolidation in the superannuation industry, which has seen the number of funds decrease from 149 to in 2023.
Of the164 products rated AAA, 72 are workplace products (44%), 42 are personal products (26%) and 50 are retirement products (30%).
Retail funds make up 29% of AAA rated products, with not-for-profits making up the remaining 71%.
Of the not-for-profit products, 85 are from industry funds, 9 are from corporate funds and 22 are from public sector/government funds.
The newly rated AAA products in 2024 are:
The assessment criteria framework as part of the AAA Quality Rating process incorporates:
The AAA Quality Rated products for 2024 are:
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Total risk market inflows were down a marginal 0.6% over the year to June 2024, decreasing from $18.3 billion to $18.2 billion.
Dual access ETPs, which are transacted both on stock exchanges and off-market through funds managers, can cost four times as much as the rest of the Australian ETP market.
