Changes to Rest’s investment options explained

We’ve simplified our range of investment options to make it easier for our members to understand and compare options when making an investment choice. If you’re a member who will be directly affected by the investment option changes, you’ll be receiving a notification shortly.

What's changing

We’re:

  • closing some investment options. Any balance in a closing option will automatically be moved to a replacement option, unless a different option is chosen.
  • changing the name of the Core Strategy investment option to Growth.
  • updating how we describe the investment objectives for some investment options.

For more details, download our Investment Options Refresh booklet for:

Name change for Core Strategy

As our default MySuper product, Core Strategy is where most of our members are invested. From 30 September 2024, we’re changing the name of Core Strategy to Growth. We think the new name better reflects the option’s growth investment focus. This won’t change how the option is invested or its expected level of risk or return.

Updates to investment objectives

From 30 September 2024, there are updates to how we describe the investment objectives for the Capital Stable, Balanced, Growth (known as Core Strategy until 30 September 2024), Sustainable Growth, and High Growth investment options. The updates are:

  • Fees and taxes now shown in the investment objective - we’ve made it clearer that the objective (our target investment return) is after the deduction of fees and taxes.
  • Extending the objective timeframe for measuring the Capital Stable and Balanced options - we’ll now measure how these options are performing over longer, rolling 10-year periods.

The table below shows the current and updated investment objectives for the affected options. The updates outlined in the table below don’t change how your super is invested, or the level of potential risk or return of the option.

Current and updated investment objectives*    
Investment option Current investment objective Investment objective from 30 September 2024
Capital Stable CPI +1% pa over the medium-term (rolling 4-year periods)  CPI +1% pa (after fees and tax) over rolling 10-year periods 
Balanced CPI +2% pa over the medium-term (rolling 6-year periods)  CPI +2% pa (after fees and tax) over rolling 10-year periods
Growth (known as Core Strategy until 30 September 2024) CPI +3% pa over the long-term (rolling 10-year periods) CPI +3% pa (after fees and tax) over rolling 10-year periods
Sustainable Growth CPI +3.5% pa over the very long-term (rolling 12-year periods) CPI +3.5% pa (after fees and tax) over rolling 12-year periods
High Growth CPI +4% pa over the very long-term (rolling 12-year periods) CPI +4% pa (after fees and tax) over rolling 12-year periods

*The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures inflation. As inflation can reduce the value of your retirement savings over time, we use CPI as a benchmark to help measure if your investment returns are staying ahead of inflation, to maintain your buying power in retirement.

Our new super simple investment menu

We recently reviewed and decided to streamline our selection of investment options. For some of you, this means making a choice about how you’d like us to invest your super moving forward.
  • If you’re invested in an option that’s being closed, the balance you’ve invested in it will automatically be moved to a replacement option on 2 November 2024, unless you choose a different option.
  • If you’d like to choose a different investment option, you can switch to another option before 4pm, 29 October 2024 (AEDT).
  • You can switch between options as normal before 4pm, 25 September 2024 (AEDT) but after this date you won’t be able to switch any additional funds into the closing options. Restrictions apply after this date.  
  • If you’ve previously elected for your contributions to be invested in a closing option, you’ll need to tell us which option you’d like us to invest your future contributions into.
    • If you haven’t chosen a new option, any contributions received after 4pm, 29 October 2024 (AEDT), that were intended for a closing option, will be invested in our default MySuper product, the Growth investment option (known as Core Strategy until 30 September 2024).
Here are some of the key changes summarised in the table below, effective from 30 September 2024. You can read more about the details in the Investment Options Refresh booklet.
Investment option Available to all Rest members from 30 September 2024 Update to investment objective Change to name
Cash Yes No No
Capital Stable Yes Yes No
Balanced Yes Yes No
Balanced - Indexed Yes No No
Growth (known as Core Strategy until 30 September 2024) Yes Yes Yes
Sustainable Growth Yes Yes No
High Growth Yes Yes No
Australian Shares - Indexed Yes No No
Overseas Shares - Indexed Yes No No
Bonds No Not applicable Not applicable
Property No Not applicable Not applicable
Diversified No Not applicable Not applicable
Shares No Not applicable Not applicable
Australian Shares No Not applicable Not applicable
Overseas Shares No Not applicable Not applicable

Managing your investment option

To review or change your investment option, simply follow the prompts in your preferred channel. 

Member Access

  1. Log into MemberAccess.
  2. Go to Investments.
  3. Select Change investments. Here you can choose to change the investment option(s) for your existing balance, future contributions, or both.
  4. Fill in the form and select Confirm.

Rest App

  1. Go to My Investments in the Menu
  2. Select Manage investments

Investment Choice form

  1. Download and complete our Investment Choice form:
    Rest Super – Investment Choice form
    Rest Pension – Investment Choice form
  2. Email a signed copy to us at contact@rest.com.au

What our members are asking

To further support our members, we’ve put together a list of answers to questions that we think you may want to know about.