APRA releases Quarterly Superannuation Performance and MySuper Statistics for March 2015

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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released its March 2015 Quarterly Superannuation Performance publication and March 2015 Quarterly MySuper Statistics report.

The Quarterly Superannuation Performance publication has been updated to include segmentation of certain statistics by fund type. The publication now includes financial performance, financial position, asset allocation and other selected statistics for each of the fund types (corporate, industry, public sector and retail).

APRA has also revised all editions of the Quarterly MySuper Statistics report, from September 2013 to December 2014, through release of a ‘back series’. The back series report contains all tables and revisions in each quarter, and will assist users in making meaningful comparisons and conducting analysis.

Further, on 20 May 2015 APRA issued a letter to Registrable Superannuation Entities licensees regarding the publication of superannuation statistics and confidentiality of data. As a result of APRA’s decision to determine further data non-confidential, publications (including the Quarterly Superannuation Performance publication) will now include additional detailed statistics without confidentiality protection measures. The letter is available on APRA’s website.

At 31 March 2015, total assets, which include the assets of self-managed superannuation funds and the balance of life office statutory funds, rose to $2.0 trillion (an increase of 14.3 per cent from the March 2014 quarter).

Contributions to funds with more than four members over the March 2015 quarter were $23.7 billion, up 4.4 per cent from the March 2014 quarter ($22.7 billion). Total contributions for the year ending March 2015 were $101.6 billion.

There were $14.4 billion in total benefit payments in the March 2015 quarter, an increase of 9.2 per cent from the March 2014 quarter ($13.2 billion). Total benefit payments for the year ending March 2015 were $57.5 billion.

Net contribution flows (contributions plus net benefit transfers less benefit payments) totalled $8.7 billion in the March 2015 quarter, a decrease of 1.4 per cent from the March 2014 quarter ($8.8 billion). Net contribution flows for the year ending March 2015 were $39.3 billion.

Refer to the Quarterly Superannuation Performance and Quarterly MySuper Statistics publications.