Fund Managers Crumble as Fee Fury Hits $2 Trillion Savings Pool
- JPMorgan, Platinum among asset managers to have cut fees
- UniSuper now manages about 70% of its assets in-house
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The easy money from managing Australia’s $2 trillion of retirement savings is coming to an end.
Fund managers are being squeezed as some of the largest pension funds bring investment functions in-house and push for an end to traditional percentage-based charges in favor of a flat-fee structure they say is fairer and more transparent. That could threaten the A$16 billion ($11.3 billion) of fees money managers raked in last year, a figure that had doubled in just three years, according to data provider Rainmaker Group.