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ANZ Staff Super offers members the choice of four investment options. You can invest your super or Retirement Section account in one or any combination of the four available options.
Each investment option has different investment objectives, asset allocation and risk and return expectations.
Your choices are:
Aggressive Growth
The majority of assets are invested in shares with small allocations to property and alternative investments.
Balanced Growth
(A MySuper product) Typically around 59% is invested in shares and property and around 24% is invested in alternative assets.
Cautious
Typically around 60% is invested in diversified fixed interest securities and cash.
Cash
100% is invested in short-term money market securities and fixed interest securities with short durations.
Log in to your account, click ‘Investments’ on the dashboard and see the description; objective; standard risk measure; minimum suggested timeframe; asset allocation; and recent investment performance for each investment option.
Super members who do not make an investment choice will be invested in the Balanced Growth option (the default option).
Retirement section members who do not make an investment choice will be invested in the option(s) that most recently applied to your account balance in the Employee Section, Employee Section C, Personal or Partner Section (whichever is applicable).
For more on information on each of ANZ Staff Super’s investment options and what to consider when making an investment choice, read the PDS relevant to your section.
For details about ANZ Staff Super's most recent monthly performance and how we have performed relative to our peers, please visit the Investment returns page.
Generally, all investments have the potential to increase or decrease in value, or stay the same. An increase in value generates a positive return while a decrease in value generates a negative return. Generally, the greater an investment’s potential return, the greater the risk associated with that investment.
Each of ANZ Staff Super’s investment options has a different mix of risk and likely return as illustrated below.
You should be comfortable with the level of risk associated with the investment option(s) you choose.
For more information on the risk and return of each of ANZ Staff Super’s investment options, read the PDS relevant to your section.
ANZ Staff Super’s investments are managed by professional investment managers. The Trustee is responsible for manager selection and monitoring their performance.
The following table shows the asset classes that ANZ Staff Super invests in and the investment managers appointed to each asset class.
Asset class | Investment manager |
Australian Shares | |
International Shares | |
Australian Direct Property | |
Global Listed Real Estate | |
Australian Fixed Income | |
International Fixed Income | |
Cash | |
Diversity | |
Private Equity | |
Global Infrastructure | |
Global Listed Infrastructure | |
Global Credit | |
Currency |
ANZ Staff Super members can select one, or a combination of the following four investment options:
You can change your investment selection weekly at no cost to you. This is known as ‘switching’.
You can also choose to place your current account balance in more than one investment option in any proportion you wish.
If you are a super member you can choose to direct future contributions and other cashflow (such as rollovers) to more than one investment option in any proportion you wish.
If you are a Retirement Section member you can choose to have future cashflows (such as income payments) drawn from one or more investment options if you’ve chosen a combination of investment options for your account balance.
While you can change your investment selections weekly, you should think carefully about making any changes based on your reaction to short-term fluctuations in the value of your investment. Super is generally considered to be a long-term investment in which you should take a considered long-term view of investment markets.
Log in to your account, click ‘Investments’ on the dashboard. Press ‘edit’ if you wish to change any of your current investment or future contributions investment options.
Important note: if you submit a change to your investments before 5pm (AEST) Thursday, it will be processed on the following Wednesday using the weekly unit prices for that day. Changes submitted after this time will be proccessed on the Wednesday after next. During times of extreme market volatility, processing of members', request may be delayed. Any switch will take effect from the date it is processed.
As your circumstances change, you may need to review your investment options. But before you make a choice, you should seek financial advice from a licensed financial planner. You can contact an ANZ Staff Super financial adviser on 1800 000 086 who can give limited financial advice over the phone.
Your ANZ Staff Super account is recorded as a unit holding in one or more of the underlying investment options.
Each investment option has a unit price. The unit price of a particular investment option is the value of its net assets divided by the number of units on issue. The “value of net assets” is the current market value of assets in an investment option, after deducting current liabilities such as accrued investment tax (where applicable) and investment related expenses.
Unit prices are set weekly or, in certain circumstances, more frequently as determined by the Trustee.
As asset values fluctuate, unit prices will go up and down. The investment return for each investment option is calculated as the percentage change in unit prices for the year, to provide a measure of investment performance.
To check current or historical unit prices of ANZ Staff Super investments go to the account login page. Click either the ‘Unit Prices Super’ or ‘Unit Prices Pension’ button and submit a date to show unit prices for that day. You can also check unit prices when logged into your account by clicking ‘Investments’ on the dashboard, scrolling down to ‘Unit Prices’, and submitting a date to show the relevant unit price.
You can also click on your investment options to see current number of units and the current price.
Get the advice you need before you make an investment choice or switch investment options. You can contact an ANZ Staff Super financial adviser on 1800 000 086 who can give you limited advice on the investment options available and your investment strategy.
If your needs are simple, an ANZ Staff Super financial adviser can help.
The Trustee of ANZ Staff Super has entered into an agreement with Mercer Financial Advice (Australia) Pty Ltd under which Mercer's financial advisers have been engaged to provide members with general or limited personal financial advice about options available within ANZ Staff Super over the phone for no extra charge.
These financial planning services are provided by Mercer Financial Advice (Australia) Pty Ltd ABN 76 153 168 293, AFSL#411766. Any advice provided by Mercer's advisers is not provided or endorsed by the Trustee and is not provided under the Trustee’s AFSL.
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