Market Insight: Your recent questions

A number of members wanted to know whether the market volatility experienced over the past few months had put any strains on QSuper’s liquidity. QSuper currently holds about 20% of its assets in liquid cash instruments. 

There is a dropdown ‘Early access and QSuper members’. Reword this to read: QSuper members were keen to know whether QSuper had sufficient liquidity to manage the number of members who might apply to access funds early as part of the temporary coronavirus and early access to super rules. (This option is now closed).

As announced in March, QSuper and Sunsuper have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter a period of exclusive due diligence to explore a merger. A number of viewers asked for an update on progress. 

Part of the Investment Update broadcast compared the asset allocation of QSuper’s Balanced investment option against the industry average. This prompted questions about how QSuper’s Balanced investment option compares in terms of performance. 

The Australian Government has announced a temporary reduction to superannuation minimum drawdown requirements for account-based pensions (such as QSuper’s Income account) and similar products by 50% for 2019-20 and 2020-21. 

Viewers asked a number of quite specific questions relating to their personal financial situation. Personal financial advice is outside the scope of information we can provide during an online broadcast, or a general information article. However, QSuper does offer members access to over-the-phone financial advice on specific topics related to your QSuper account. And in more general terms, here are some common investment-related questions we can answer. 

There was a great deal of interest in QSuper’s asset valuation policy in relation to illiquid assets (such as infrastructure and real estate).