2016-17 Annual Report
Public Trustee
2016-17 Annual Report
Public Trustee
211 Victoria Square Adelaide SA 5000
GPO Box 1338 Adelaide SA 5001
Contact phone number 08 8226 0200
Contact email ptenquiries@sa.gov.au
ISSN1441-2799 (Print)
1836-263X (Online)
Date presented to Minister: 28 September 2017
To: The Honourable John Rau MP
Deputy Premier
Attorney-General
Minister for Justice Reform
Minister for Planning
Minister for Industrial Relations
Minister for Child Protection Reform
Minister for the Public Sector
Minister for Consumer and Business Services
Minister for the City of Adelaide
Member of the Executive Council
This annual report is presented to Parliament to meet the statutory reporting requirements of the Public Trustee Act 1995 and the Public Sector Act 2009 and meets the requirements of Premier and Cabinet Circular PC013 Annual Reporting.
This report is verified to be accurate for the purposes of annual reporting to the Parliament of South Australia.
Submitted on behalf of the Public Trustee by:
Debra Contala
Public Trustee
28 September 2017
Contents
Key strategies and their relationship to SA Government objectives
Agency programs and initiatives and their effectiveness and efficiency
Legislation administered by the agency
Other agencies related to this agency (within the Minister’s area/s of responsibility)
Employment opportunity programs
Agency performance management and development systems
Occupational health, safety and rehabilitation programs of the agency and their effectiveness
Strategies implemented to control and prevent fraud
Executive employment in the agency
Financial performance of the agency
Section B: Reporting required under any other act or regulation
Section C: Reporting of public complaints
Appendix: Audited financial statements 2016-17
Section A: Reporting required under the Public Sector Act 2009, the Public Sector Regulations 2010 and the Public Finance and Audit Act 1987
Agency purpose or role
| The office of the Public Trustee (PT) was established in 1881 and is constituted under the provisions of the Public Trustee Act 1995. The Public Trustee is a statutory officer pursuant to the Public Trustee Act 1995. Public Trustee is a body corporate with the powers of a natural person.
The role of PT is to provide all South Australians with access to Will making services, powers of attorney preparation and deceased estate and trust administration. PT also has a role in managing the financial affairs of those people in the community who lack the capacity to manage their own affairs as determined by the courts, the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) or through activation of powers of attorney. |
Objectives
Public Trustee’s strategic objectives under our 2014–17 Strategic Plan are:
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Key strategies and their relationship to SA Government objectives
| Key strategy | SA Government objective |
| Customer Service
• Improve communications to customers and stakeholders. |
Target 32 Customer and client satisfaction with government services. |
| Governance and Leadership
• Develop the leadership capabilities of the management of PT. |
Target 32 Customer and client satisfaction with government services. |
| Business Improvement
• Develop strategies to move to digital transactions. |
Target 32 Customer and client satisfaction with government services.
Target 34 Credit rating. |
| People and Culture
• Ensure staff are well trained and equipped to undertake their roles. |
Target 32 Customer and client satisfaction with government services. |
| Financial Sustainability
• Meet PT fiscal targets set by Government. |
Target 34 Credit rating. |
| Raise Community Awareness
• Undertake a range of community awareness activities to provide information to the community about the importance of having a valid Will. |
Target 32 Customer and client satisfaction with government services. |
Agency programs and initiatives and their effectiveness and efficiency
| Program name | Indicators of performance/effectiveness/efficiency | Comments |
| Writing Wills & Powers of Attorney:
• Free Will and power of attorney drafting services are provided for all South Australians who nominate PT as their executor, attorney or substitute attorney. |
• PT prepared 684 new Wills and revised 1055 existing Wills.
• A total of 456 power of attorney documents were prepared. • A total of 202 visits were made to people in their homes or other facilities to prepare Wills. • The Customer Satisfaction Survey showed satisfaction with PT services rated at 4.78 out of 5. • The survey showed that 95% of Wills customers would recommend PT to others. |
• The total number of new Wills prepared increased by 19.3% since 2015-16.
• Customer Satisfaction Survey results were very positive with the majority indicating that they were satisfied with the level of service. This result has remained steady since 2015. |
| Deceased Estates & Trusts Administration:
• PT acts as executor of an estate where named executor in the Will, or as administrator when a person dies intestate (without a Will). • PT manages court-awarded trusts, trusts established by a Will and trusts under deed for minors, as well as perpetual charitable and scholarship trusts. |
• Commenced administration of 532 new deceased estates and 118 new trusts
• Finalised 661 deceased estates and 96 trusts. • Customer Satisfaction Survey rated satisfaction with PT services at 3.9 out of 5. • The survey showed that 65% of respondents would recommend PT to others. |
• While positive, this year’s customer satisfaction level represented a slight decline in mean satisfaction compared to previous year’s surveys. |
| Personal Financial Administration:
• PT can be appointed to be legally responsible for making all, or some, of a person’s financial and legal decisions where that person has lost capacity to do so. |
• PT appointed administrator or manager of the financial and legal affairs of 503 new customers.
• As at 30 June 2017 there were 4324 financial administrations on hand. • Customer Satisfaction Survey results, collected from both customers and their representatives, gave a satisfaction rating of 4.03 out of 5. • The proportion of survey respondents who would recommend Public Trustee to others was 83% |
• The number of new personal financial administrations has increased by 143 since 2015-16.
• Overall Customer Satisfaction Survey results were positive and indicate sound and continuing levels of customer satisfaction.
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| Litigation Guardian:
• PT may be appointed by a Court to act as ‘Next friend’ for customers unable to conduct their own legal proceedings. |
• PT appointed litigation guardian for 27 new customers.
• As at 30 June 2017 there were 62 matters on hand. |
• New matters increased slightly from 2015-16. |
| Monitoring Private Financial Administrators and Managers:
• PT is required annually to examine and report on activities of private financial administrators and managers appointed by SACAT and the courts. |
• PT’s Regulatory Services team reviewed the financial statements of a total of 1773 Private Administrators, Managers and Executors.
• A total of 90 matters were referred to SACAT for non-compliance with reporting requirements. • PT held 14 information sessions for newly appointed administrators, to provide them with information about their responsibilities. |
• Information sessions rated as being of ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’ value for those in with the role of Private Administrator. The number of sessions held over the year was increased in response to demand. |
Legislation administered by the agency
| Public Trustee Act 1995
Under the provisions of Section 5(2) of the Public Trustee Act 1995, PT may act as: a trustee, executor of a Will, administrator of an estate (whether or not of a deceased person), manager, receiver, committee, curator, guardian, next friend, agent, attorney, or stakeholder. Other Acts that form the basis of how, and which, PT services are delivered to customers are as follows:
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Organisation of the agency
| The Public Trustee
Investment Services Business & Client Financial Services Client Financial Services Taxation Services Information and Communications Technology Corporate Services Regulation of Private Financial Administrators Governance and Compliance Customer Services Estate Services Wills & Related Services Customer Relationships Team Deceased Estates Trusts Personal Estates Legal The major governance committees for the organisation are; · Investment Advisory Committee; · Audit and Risk Management Committee; and · Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Committee |
Other agencies related to this agency (within the Minister’s area/s of responsibility)
| PT is a business unit of the South Australian Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) and as such complies with AGD policies. PT employees are employees of the AGD.
PT works closely with SACAT when SACAT appoints PT to administer the personal financial and/or legal affairs of people who are unable to manage their own affairs. At times PT works with the Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) when we have mutual customers i.e. OPA is guardian and PT is financial administrator. |
Employment opportunity programs
| Program name | Result of the program |
| Jobs4Youth | Two employees successfully completed the Jobs4Youth Program in 2016 -17 and have since gained ongoing roles in PT. |
| Graduate Program | One employee has commenced the graduate program and is currently working through the program’s requirements. |
Agency performance management and development systems
| Performance management and development system | Assessment of effectiveness and efficiency |
| Performance Review and Development Plans. | During 2016-17 94% of PT staff completed Performance Review and Development Plans. |
| During 2016-17 PT transitioned to AGD’s online ELMO system. | The online platform provides access to performance development and training in a centralised location. A move away from a complex paper-based process ELMO provides fully transferrable employee records when employees or managers move. The performance cycle consists of employees and managers setting clear performance expectations (at least annually) and holding face to face reviews quarterly. |
Occupational health, safety and rehabilitation programs of the agency and their effectiveness
| Occupational health, safety and rehabilitation programs | Effectiveness |
| Employee Assistance Program (EAP). | All staff have access to a confidential Employee Assistance Program, offering a counselling service to support and assist staff with both professional and personal issues. |
| AGD Health and Safety Committee. | PT has manager and employee representation on this committee which provides a consultative forum to support and continuously improve work, health, safety and wellbeing systems and practices. |
| Floor Inspections. | As part of the commitment to the safety of employees, six-monthly floor inspections are conducted to identify any hazards or risks with corrective action taken as needed. |
| Public Trustee Staff Wellbeing Initiatives. | PT staff are encouraged to participate in a range of social and wellbeing initiatives. As part of this, PT staff raise funds to give back to the community through specially selected local charities and organisations. |
Fraud detected in the agency
Nil to report.
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept
Whistle-blowers’ disclosure
| Number of occasions on which public interest information has been disclosed to a responsible officer of the agency under the Whistle-blowers’ Protection Act 1993 | 0 |
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept
Executive employment in the agency
| Executive classification | Number of executives |
| SAES1 | 2 |
| SAES2 | 1 |
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept
Consultants
PT had no consultancies during the 2016-17 financial year.
Financial performance of the agency
| Public Trustee achieved an operating surplus after income tax equivalents of $419 000 compared to a budgeted operating surplus of $559 000.
The following table provides summaries of the Statement of Comprehensive Income and Statement of Financial Position, showing comparisons between either ‘actual to budget’ and/or ‘actual to prior year’ performance. Table 1: 2016-17 Summary of Statement of Comprehensive Income
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept Commissions and fees from core business activities were $1.247 million below budget. Favourable outcomes against budget in both management fees ($609 000 favourable) and investment returns ($87 000 favourable), due primarily to buoyant market returns and a favourable return in other income ($220 000) partially offset the unfavourable core business revenue outcomes. The favourable outcome in expenditure totalling $158 000 when compared to budget contributed to the final outcome. Factors contributing to this result include: · A concerted effort to exercise expenditure restraint on supplies and services during 2016-17; |
Other financial information
| Customer Investments
For the year ended 30 June 2017, PT’s investment strategies performed well. Growth oriented strategies, with more exposure to shares, delivered the best returns whilst returns from defensive asset classes were lower. Global shares and Australian shares were the largest drivers of returns for the 2016-17 financial year. Global interest rates moved higher, with the US Federal Reserve increasing rates in March and June 2017. The Reserve Bank of Australia reduced interest rates to an all time low of 1.50%. The Australian dollar appreciated against the US dollar finishing at $0.77US for the financial year. All of PT’s investment strategies outperformed their respective benchmarks with returns ranging from 1.85% for cash to 15.93% for the Equities strategy (net of fees). The investment returns for five years demonstrate that the long-term performance has been strong, stable and has continued to exceed benchmarks. |
Other information requested by the Minister(s) or other significant issues affecting the agency or reporting pertaining to independent functions
| Under the Public Corporations Act 1993, a Charter must be prepared for a public corporation by its Minister and the Treasurer.
The Charter, agreed by the Attorney-General, the Treasurer and the Public Trustee, describes the reporting and accountability requirements and sets out the responsibilities and the expectations of both PT and the Government. The Charter is reviewed annually. The Charter also requires an agreed annual performance statement that outlines PT’s objectives for invested customer funds, and financial and other performance targets. |
Section B: Reporting required under any other act or regulation
| Public Trustee Act 1995 |
| Section 30
(3) The Public Trustee must include in the Public Trustee’s annual report to the Minister for each financial year— |
Audited Statement of Accounts in respect of each Common Fund:
Refer to the Annual Financial Statements section of this report.
The Auditor-General’s Report upon the Statements of Account:
Refer to the Annual Financial Statements section of this report.
The nature and amount of any fee that PT charges in respect of investment in the common funds:
Management Fee
A management fee is charged against money invested in each common fund at the rate of one-twelfth of 1.025% (inc. of GST) of the value of the fund as at the first business day of each month. Management fees attract GST at a reduced rate as there is an entitlement to claim a reduced input tax credit.
Goods and Services Tax
An investment in PT’s common funds is classified as an input-taxed financial supply and no GST is charged on such supplies. Simply put, investments made in common funds and investor withdrawals from those funds are not subject to GST; nor are entry fees subject to GST.
If a supply is input-taxed, the supplier will not usually receive a tax credit for any GST incurred in connection with the supplier’s expenses.
However, for financial supplies, the supplier is able to claim a tax credit for three quarters of the liability incurred in respect of certain expenses (this is called a reduced input tax credit).
The majority of expenses incurred by PT’s common funds, including PT management fees, are eligible for the reduced input tax credit. The net impact of the GST on expenses incurred by the common funds is therefore approximately 2.5% rather than the full 10% rate.
Indirect Cost Ratios (formerly Management Expense Ratio)
The total funds management costs for common funds and standard investment strategies, as represented by Indirect Cost Ratios (ICR), are shown in the following table.
| Strategy | ICR 2016-17 | ICR 2015–16 |
| Cash | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| Capital Stable | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| Balanced | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| Growth
Equities |
1.50%
1.58% |
1.52%
1.67% |
| Common Fund | ICR 2016-17 | ICR 2015–16 |
| Cash | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| Long term fixed interest | 1.10% | 1.08% |
| Short term fixed interest | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| Overseas fixed interest | 1.33% | 1.35% |
| Australian shares | 1.56% | 1.62% |
| Property | 1.79% | 1.75% |
| Overseas shares | 1.60% | 1.73% |
Entry Fees
Investors pay the following fees when investing in common funds (NB: no fees are charged on entry or exit from the cash common fund):
All other standard investment strategies;
- For beneficiaries of estates administered by PT, where there is a change of ownership of the assets and when funds would otherwise be distributed:
| Amounts up to $500 000 | 0.5% |
| Additional amounts from $500 000 to $2 million | 0.375% |
| Additional amounts from $2 million to $5 million | 0.25% |
| Additional amounts above $5 million | 0.0% |
- For beneficiaries of estates administered by PT where there is no change of ownership of the assets and when funds would otherwise be distributed:
No entry fee will apply except to additional funds invested, in which case the above reduced scale for the beneficiary investors will apply.
| · For all other investors:
Amounts up to $500 000 |
1.0% |
| Additional amounts from $500 000 to $2 million | 0.75% |
| Additional amounts from $2 million to $5 million | 0.5% |
| Additional amounts above $5 million | 0.0% |
The above fees will also apply to distributed income and realised capital gains when they are reinvested in a strategy other than cash.
No exit fees are charged.
No switching fees will be charged except when moving monies from the cash investment strategy to another strategy. The entry fees as disclosed above will then apply.
Deposits
PT does not accept cash deposits. Investments in investment strategies may be made either by cheque, direct credit or by transfer of funds from an existing estate being administered by PT.
Identification
When establishing an investment account with PT, customers will be required to provide satisfactory proof of identity. A PT contact officer will explain identification requirements.
The extent to which a capital sum invested may be reduced to defray losses from investment of a common fund:
Realised or unrealised losses of a capital nature of an investment of a common fund shall be received or borne by investors, in proportion to the capital sums invested in the fund.
Rights of an investor in a common fund to withdraw all or part of a person’s investment in the fund:
Investors may withdraw all or part of their investment in a fund at any time.
Part withdrawals must be in amounts of $1 000 or greater, or the balance of the funds being managed, if the amount to be withdrawn reduces the remaining balance to less than $5 000 for beneficiary investors or $20 000 for other investors. All withdrawal requests must be made in writing.
Cash Common Fund
Proceeds of withdrawals from the cash common fund of amounts less than $1 million will be available on the next business day (subject to the request being received by 12 noon). Proceeds of withdrawals of amounts greater than $1 million may not be available until the thirtieth business day.
Other Investment Strategies
Proceeds of withdrawals from investment strategies, other than the cash investment strategy fund, will not be available until 15 business days after the next exit day (currently the first day of each month). Proceeds of withdrawals of amounts greater than $1 million from these investment strategies may not be available until the thirtieth business day after the next exit day.
Terms governing distribution of income and profit or loss of a capital nature attributable to each investment in a common fund:
The net income and realised capital gains of each fund are calculated to 30 June and 31 December and will be distributed to the investor in July and January of each year, unless the investor has given instructions to reinvest the money.
Classes of investment in which common funds may invest:
Section 29 of the Public Trustee Act 1995 (the Act) requires PT to determine the classes of investments in which a common fund may be invested, and provides for these classes to be varied from time to time. The Act does not define classes of investment.
Determination of the classes of investment in which PT common funds may invest:
Cash Common Fund
The permitted classes of investment are:
- Cash
- Australian Fixed Interest
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- All investments shall be denominated in Australian dollars.
- Fixed rate securities shall not exceed three years to maturity.
- Floating rate securities shall not exceed 10 years to maturity.
The following class of investment is explicitly excluded:
- Derivatives.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules of the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
Short-term Fixed Interest Common Fund
The permitted classes of investment are:
- Cash
- Australian Fixed Interest
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- All investments shall be denominated in Australian dollars. The fund’s liquidity requirements will be managed by an investment in the Cash Common Fund.
- Fixed rate securities shall not exceed five years to maturity.
- Floating rate securities shall not exceed 10 years to maturity.
Security lending arrangements in relation to authorised investments are permitted.
The following class of investment is explicitly excluded:
- Derivatives.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules of the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
Long-term Fixed Interest Common Fund
The permitted classes of investment are:
- Cash
- Australian Fixed Interest
- Inflation-linked Securities
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- All investments shall be denominated in Australian dollars.
- The fund’s liquidity requirements will be met by investment in the cash common fund.
- Fixed rate securities and inflation-linked securities shall not exceed 15 years and 25 years to maturity, respectively.
- Inflation-linked securities shall be restricted to consumer inflation or average weekly earnings-linked securities issued by the Commonwealth Government, State Governments or the Government of the Northern Territory, and securities issued by other parties where the payments to holders of the securities are guaranteed by these governments.
- Security lending arrangements in relation to authorised investments are permitted.
The following class of investment is explicitly excluded:
- Derivatives.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules or the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
Australian Shares Common Fund
The classes of investment are:
- Cash
- Australian equities
- Derivatives
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- Fund liquidity requirements shall be met by investment in the cash common fund.
- Investments in Australian Equities shall be limited to securities of companies and trusts listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and to unlisted securities in companies and trusts where the intention is for these securities to be listed within six months of investment.
- Small capitalisation companies, defined as those outside the Top 100 Sector of the Australian Stock Exchange’s All Ordinaries Index, shall not exceed 20% of the fund’s assets.
- Underwriting is permitted only where PT has made a firm subscription to a new issue and the amount underwritten does not exceed the subscription amount.
- Underwriting as an investment instrument is prohibited.
- Security lending arrangements in relation to authorised investments is permitted.
- Investments in financial derivatives specifically relating to the investments of the fund are permitted for the purpose of:
- investment of funds; or
- hedging or otherwise managing the risk of the fund.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules of the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
Property Common Fund
The classes of investment are:
- Cash
- Property
- Infrastructure
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- Fund liquidity requirements shall be met by investment in the cash common fund.
- Investments in property comprise securities of companies and trusts that are either listed or unlisted.
- Investments in listed and unlisted infrastructure trusts are permitted in the fund.
- Underwriting is permitted only where PT has made a firm subscription to a new issue and the amount underwritten does not exceed the subscription amount.
- Security lending arrangements in relation to authorised investments are permitted.
- Investments in financial derivatives specifically relating to the investments of the fund are permitted for the purpose of:
- investment of funds; or
- hedging or otherwise managing the risk of the fund.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules of the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
Overseas Shares Common Fund
The classes of investment are:
- Cash
- International Equities
- Derivatives.
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- Fund liquidity requirements shall be met by investment in the cash common fund.
- Cash, where held other than by investment in the cash common fund, shall be held as bank deposits, bank-guaranteed securities or short-term sovereign debt instruments.
- Trading in inter-bank or over-the-counter markets shall occur only in those markets which have been approved by the relevant government agencies of the country in which the market is conducted.
- Investments in collective investment schemes, the primary mandates of which are the holdings of smaller companies and emerging markets securities, shall not exceed 25% and 15% of the assets of this common fund, respectively.
- Underwriting is permitted only where PT (either directly or via an appointed custodian) has made a firm subscription to a new issue and the amount underwritten does not exceed the subscription amount.
- Security lending arrangements in relation to authorised investments are permitted.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules of the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
Overseas Fixed Interest Common Fund
The permitted classes of investment are:
- Cash
- International Fixed Interest and inflation linked securities
- Derivatives
Qualifications on these investment classes:
- The fund’s liquidity requirements shall be met by investment in the cash common
- Cash, where held other than by investment in the cash common fund, shall be held as bank deposits, bank-guaranteed securities or short-term sovereign debt instruments.
- All fixed income securities must be rated by recognised rating agencies and at least 90% of the fund shall comprise investment-grade securities.
- Investments in financial derivatives specifically relating to the investments of the fund are permitted for the purpose of:
- investment of funds; or
- hedging or otherwise managing the risk of the fund.
The fund may invest in collective investment schemes operated by organisations approved by the relevant government agencies, provided that the rules of the collective investment schemes restrict the schemes’ investments to the permitted classes of investment of the common fund.
2016–17 Investment Strategies
Table 2: 2016–17 Standard Investment Strategies’ five-year performance
| 2016–17 Performance |
Last 12 Months Annualised% |
3 Years Annualised% |
5 Years Annualised% |
| Cash | 1.85% | 2.25% | 2.76% |
| benchmark | 0.80% | 1.22% | 1.52% |
| variance | 1.05% | 1.03% | 1.24% |
| Capital Stable | 4.48% | 4.25% | 5.68% |
| benchmark | 3.26% | 3.68% | 4.98% |
| variance | 1.22% | 0.57% | 0.70% |
| Balanced | 7.05% | 6.10% | 8.53% |
| benchmark | 5.81% | 5.41% | 7.79% |
| variance | 1.24% | 0.69% | 0.74% |
| Growth | 9.71% | 7.30% | 10.61% |
| benchmark | 8.56% | 6.30% | 9.72% |
| variance | 1.15% | 1.00% | 0.89% |
| Equities | 15.93% | 9.19% | 13.88% |
| benchmark | 14.45% | 7.78% | 12.92% |
| variance | 1.48% | 1.41% | 0.96% |
Table 3: 2016–17 SIS Performance versus CPI Objectives (as at 30 June 2017)
| Investment Strategy | CPI Objective | Investment Horizon | Target Return
% pa |
Actual Return
% pa |
Over (+) /Under(-) | Outperformance % pa | |
| Capital Stable | CPI + 2% p.a. | 3 Years | 3.5 | 4.3 | + | 0.8 | |
| Balanced | CPI + 3% p.a. | 5 Years | 5.0 | 8.6 | + | 3.6 | |
| Growth | CPI + 3.5% p.a. | 7 Years | 5.6 | 9.4 | + | 3.8 | |
| Equities | CPI + 4% p.a. | 10 Years | 6.4 | 5.2 | – | -1.2 |
2016–17 Asset Allocation
Table 4: 2016–17 Capital Stable Standard Investment Strategy
| Common Fund | Allocation (%) 2017 | Allocation (%) 2016 | ||||
| Neutral | Period End | $m | Neutral | Period End | $m | |
| Australian Shares | 10.0% | 10.0% | $11.52 | 11.0% | 11.1% | $8.15 |
| Overseas Shares | 8.0% | 8.4% | $9.67 | 8.0% | 6.3% | $4.62 |
| Listed Property Securities | 10.0% | 9.6% | $11.09 | 7.5% | 7.8% | $5.70 |
| Long-term Fixed Interest | 15.0% | 15.0% | $17.22 | 15.0% | 15.4% | $11.28 |
| Short-term Fixed Interest | 26.5% | 26.7% | $30.74 | 28.2% | 28.5% | $20.94 |
| Overseas Fixed Interest | 12.5% | 12.1% | $13.95 | 11.3% | 11.6% | $8.55 |
| Cash | 18.0% | 18.2% | $20.96 | 19.0% | 19.3% | $14.19 |
| TOTAL | 100.00% | 100.00% | $115.15 | 100.00% | 100.00% | $73.43 |
Table 5: 2016–17 Balanced Standard Investment Strategy
| Common Fund | Allocation (%) 2017 | Allocation (%) 2016 | |||||
| Neutral | Period End | $m | Neutral | Period End | $m | ||
| Australian Shares | 19.0% | 19.1% | $42.38 | 21.5% | 22.0% | $45.16 | |
| Overseas Shares | 16.0% | 16.9% | $37.46 | 16.0% | 12.8% | $26.23 | |
| Listed Property Securities | 20.0% | 19.3% | $42.96 | 15.0% | 15.8% | $32.34 | |
| Long-term Fixed Interest | 22.0% | 22.0% | $48.83 | 23.5% | 24.5% | $50.14 | |
| Short-term Fixed Interest | 7.0% | 7.0% | $15.70 | 8.5% | 8.7% | $17.90 | |
| Overseas Fixed Interest | 12.0% | 11.6% | $25.90 | 11.0% | 11.5% | $23.61 | |
| Cash | 4.0% | 4.1% | $9.01 | 4.5% | 4.7% | $9.53 | |
| TOTAL | 100.00% | 100.00% | $222.24 | 100.00% | 100.00% | $204.91 | |
Table 6: 2016–17 Growth Standard Investment Strategy
| Common Fund | Allocation (%) 2017 | Allocation (%) 2016 | ||||
| Neutral | Period End | $m | Neutral | Period End | $m | |
| Australian Shares | 29.0% | 28.9% | $60.38 | 32.0% | 33.5% | $66.62 |
| Overseas Shares | 24.0% | 25.1% | $52.45 | 24.5% | 20.0% | $39.79 |
| Listed Property Securities | 20.0% | 19.2% | $40.10 | 15.0% | 16.1% | $32.05 |
| Long-term Fixed Interest | 12.5% | 12.4% | $25.89 | 13.7% | 14.6% | $28.96 |
| Short-term Fixed Interest | 4.5% | 4.5% | $9.42 | 4.8% | 5.0% | $10.02 |
| Overseas Fixed Interest | 6.0% | 5.8% | $12.08 | 5.5% | 5.9% | $11.70 |
| Cash | 4.0% | 4.1% | $8.41 | 4.5% | 4.8% | $9.44 |
| TOTAL | 100.00% | 100.00% | $208.73 | 100.00% | 99.90% | $198.58 |
Table 7: 2016–17 Equities Standard Investment Strategy
| Common Fund | Allocation (%) 2017 | Allocation (%) 2016 | ||||
| Neutral | Period End | $m | Neutral | Period End | $m | |
| Australian Shares | 55.0% | 53.8% | $42.12 | 55.0% | 61.0% | $43.32 |
| Overseas Shares | 45.0% | 46.2% | $36.16 | 45.0% | 39.0% | $27.66 |
| TOTAL | 100.0% | 100.0% | $78.28 | 100.0% | 100.0% | $70.98 |
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept
Section C: Reporting of public complaints
| Public complaints received by Public Trustee | ||
| 2016-17 | 2015–16 | |
| Number of instances | 78 | 50 |
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept
Appendix: 2016-17 PT Services
Table 8: 2016-17 PT Services
| 2016-17 | 2015–16 | |
| Documents prepared (including during home visits) | ||
| New Wills | 684 | 573 |
| Revised Wills | 1055 | 1217 |
| Total Wills | 1739 | 1790 |
| Enduring Powers of Attorney (new and revised) | 456 | 335 |
| Documents prepared during home visits | ||
| Number of home visits | 202 | 195 |
| Wills (new and revised) | 132 | 101 |
| Enduring Powers of Attorney (new and revised) | 31 | 18 |
| Deceased estate administration | ||
| New cases | 532 | 702 |
| Completed estate matters | 661 | 635 |
| Estates currently under administration | 1 136 | 1 163 |
| Grants of probate and administration received for the period | 410 | 452 |
| Unclaimed money balances – finalised at 30 June, payment early next period | ||
| Number of unclaimed balances paid to DTF | 43 | 20 |
| Value of unclaimed balances paid to DTF | $2.9m | $166 822 |
| Annual taxation returns | ||
| Taxation returns completed | 7 166 | 6 946 |
| Personal estate administration | ||
| Total number of personal estates under administration (including SACAT orders, court awards and Powers of Attorney) | 4 324 | 4181 |
| Number of new customers under SACAT Orders | 438 | 341 |
| New court-award customers | 28 | 33 |
| Total funds received from new court awards | $12.7m | $5.9m |
| New Power of Attorney customers | 34 | 33 |
| Number of in-person meetings with Personal Estates Branch customers | 642 | 509 |
| Court-awarded funds under administration (includes court award customers and court award trusts) | $416.4m | $387.2m |
| Reduced fee threshold | $4 850 | $4 800 |
| % of customers under administration from whom no fees were collected | 15.7% | 17.8% |
| Trust activity | ||
| New trusts | 118 | 114 |
| Trust matters finalised | 196 | 127 |
| Trusts on hand at 30 June | 1 362 | 1 437 |
| 2016-17 | 2015–16 | |
| Trusts for children under the care of the Minister | ||
| Trusts for children under the care of the Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion on hand at 30 June | 41 | 26 |
| Completed trusts for children under the care of the Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion | 3 | 3 |
| Litigation guardian appointments | ||
| Number of next friend/litigation guardian matters on hand | 62 | 69 |
| New litigation guardian customers | 27 | 25 |
| Private administrators and private managers – review of financial statements | ||
| Private administrators appointed under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1993 | 1 303 | 1 262 |
| Private managers appointed under the Aged and Infirm Persons’ Property Act 1940 | 170 | 160 |
| Alternate executor administrations pursuant to a court order | 300 | 379 |
| Customer financial services activity | ||
| Funds under administration (including superannuation) | $1 127.3m | $1 008.9m |
| New funds invested for the reporting period | $165.4m | $78.1m |
| Funds redeemed for the reporting period | $93.1m | $81.8m |
| Total Common Fund trades for the reporting period | $1 935.2m | $1 378.9 m |
| Distributions to customers | $46.7m | $36.9m |
| Total number of payments made | 411 036 | 410 095 |
| Total value of payments made | $285.6m | $290.2m |
| Total customer funds receipted value of pensions included | $315.7m $74.2m | $268.5m $71.3m |
| Total value of real estate properties held | $333.2m | $312.5m |
| Total value of managed customer assets | $1 552.7m | $1 393.5m |
Data for the past five years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/attorney-general-s-dept
Appendix: Audited financial statements 2016-17
Audited financial statements 2016-17 including corporate and customer information can be found here. (PDF 5mb)
Access full 2016-17 Public Trustee Annual Report here (PDF 5 mb)