The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (“APRA”) has released performance data for individual superannuation funds, covering the eight-year period from 2004 to 2011.

The performance data are for APRA-regulated funds, with the exception of small APRA funds, single-member approved deposit funds and pooled superannuation trusts, and are provided in the following two publications: (i) Superannuation fund-level rates of return, which contains performance data on the 200 largest funds by asset size as annualised five-year and eight-year average returns, as well as for each of the eight years. These 200 largest funds cover 98 per cent of the members and 99 per cent of the assets of APRA-regulated (excluding small) funds, as well as eligible rollover funds (ERFs); and (ii) Superannuation fund-level profiles and financial performance, which contains detailed data for all funds each year from 2004 to 2011. The detailed data allow observers to analyse APRA-regulated funds across a range of measures (subject to privacy considerations).