11 January 2010 13:00
“You could streamline the investment strategies and improve the cost structure…instead of two PDSs, you’d have one PDS.”
But it is understood that EISS is the more eager of the two funds to merge. Ian Robertson, trustee with LGSS, derisively likened the smaller fund to “the ugliest, drunken person in the bar trying to shag someone far more attractive”.
With the super industry facing into headwinds that raise the floor on minimum scale and increase complexity, the pressure towards further consolidation should ultimately prove unstoppable, and a natural end-point could be ten mega-funds over $200 billion in size managing more than 90 per cent of system assets. The path to that destination, however, could be bumpy.
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