Super Fund Performance Reckoners: Annual Returns For 5 Investment Categories

In the reckoners below you can view the median super fund returns for 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 15 years across five different investment options.

These options are:

  • All Growth (96% to 100% invested in growth assets)
  • High Growth (81% to 95% invested in growth assets)
  • Growth (61% to 80% invested in growth assets)
  • Balanced (41% to 60% invested in growth assets)
  • Conservative (21% to 40% invested in growth assets)

Your fund may label investment options differently, so it’s important to know the level of growth assets in your chosen option so you can compare your performance with the median return for similar funds.

There are two reckoners – containing returns for calendar and financial years since 2015. We’re grateful to Chant West for providing the statistics in this article.

The reckoners are easy to use. Just click on the Filter buttons. You can then select if you’d like to filter by particular investment options, or by particular years. Just click the OK buttons to select those filters and the table will update automatically.

Financial years

Calendar years

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