Our investment options

Suitability and risk

Suits members who want exposure to a range of asset classes and are comfortable with the value of their investments fluctuating.

7 years
Suggested minimum investment time frame
High
Summary risk level
Pre-Mixed
Option type
$6.8 billion

Option size1

As at 30 April 2022

Expected frequency of negative annual return
4 to less than 6 in 20 years
Total investment fees and costs and transaction costs (%)
Super: 0.57% | Pension:  0.50%

Objective and performance

The Growth investment option invests in a diversified portfolio of mainly higher risk assets, such as Australian and international shares and private equity, as well as moderate risk assets including property and infrastructure, with some lower risk assets such as fixed interest and cash investments.

Please refer to the PDS for the most up to date investment returns objective information.

Objective

To achieve returns that exceed CPI by 3.5% over 7 years.2

Performance against objective

2
% p.a. over 7 years
As at 31 Mar 2022
CPI + 3.5% Growth performance Outperformance
5.6 8.4 2.8
Performance objectives are not promises or predictions of any particular rate of return.

Performance against peers

2
Compare performance against the median performance of the top funds as identified by SuperRatings.2
% p.a.
As at 31 May 2022
Timeframe Growth performance SuperRatings median performance Outperformance
1 month -1.67 -1.28 -0.39
3 months -3.22 -1.22 -2.00
Financial year to date -4.16 -0.53 -3.63
1 year -1.43 1.69 -3.12
3 years 7.80 7.28 0.52
5 years 8.10 7.42 0.68
7 years 7.55 6.97 0.58
10 years 10.30 9.54 0.76
Periods less than a year are not annualised.

Growth option performance ($)

2
As at 23 Jun 2022

Objective

To achieve returns that exceed CPI by 3.5% over 7 years.2

Performance against objective

2
% p.a. over 7 years
As at 31 Mar 2022
CPI + 3.5% Growth performance Outperformance
5.6 9.3 3.7
Performance objectives are not promises or predictions of any particular rate of return.

Performance against peers

2
Compare performance against the median performance of the top funds as identified by SuperRatings.2
% p.a.
As at 31 May 2022
Timeframe Growth performance SuperRatings median performance Outperformance
1 month -1.82 -1.41 -0.41
3 months -3.51 -1.43 -2.08
Financial year to date -4.51 -0.48 -4.03
1 year -1.78 1.95 -3.73
3 years 8.48 8.03 0.45
5 years 8.83 8.18 0.65
7 years 8.31 7.92 0.39
10 years 11.40 10.52 0.88
Periods less than a year are not annualised.

Growth option performance ($)

2
As at 23 Jun 2022