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Macquarie considered acquiring Carlyle: Reports

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
Macquarie was allegedly in takeover talks with private equity giant Carlyle Group, but the discussions "fizzled", according to reports from US outlet Semafor. Had the talks continued and a merger were to happen, the combined entity would have had $1.5 ...

FEATURE: Problem detected

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... and TelstraSuper are among the few remaining that manage their administration internally; CareSuper and MIESF are set to merge on October 1, and TelstraSuper is in merger talks with Aware Super. ASFA has previously said that an outsourced lower-cost ...

Brighter Super investments chief to step down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
Brighter Super's chief investment officer has decided to semi-retire and will step down from the post on December 5. Mark Rider has been leading the investments team for the last four years. He was appointed chief investment officer at LGIAsuper ...

AZ NGA forms strategic partnership with Qld advice firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) has partnered with MiQ Private Wealth to provide succession solutions for its retiring partners, while funding the group's future expansion plans. Established in 2015, the Queensland-based MiQ has over 50 employees ...

Salary report shows 23% pay gap for top BDMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
More distribution executives are seeking careers in the wholesale market as demand for super fund BDMs slow, Kaizen's latest salary report shows. Kaizen's Funds Distribution Salary Guide FY2025-26 found that salaries have remained flat in the ...

Brighter Super to add 68k new members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
Brighter Super is about to undertake a successor fund transfer that will see its membership swell by 25%. On October 1, Brighter Super is set to take on several risk-only products currently housed under Zurich's OneCare Super. There are about eight ...

Natixis IM adds distribution leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
Natixis Investment Managers has added two distribution leads who will respectively focus on institutional and private wealth clients. James Damicoucas joined as director of institutional sales this month. Based in Melbourne, Damicoucas was most recently ...

Fewer global equity managers underperform: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
Only half of global equity funds are trailing their benchmarks, marking a substantial improvement from the 71% long-run underperformance rate, according the SPIVA Australia Scorecard half-year analysis. Fifty-four percent of global equity general funds ...

Equip Super rejigs insurance fees, policy terms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... in assets and more than 145,000 members at the end of March. In May, Equip Super and TelstraSuper failed in their bids to merge, with the latter saying it was unlikely to achieve its objectives. TelstraSuper decided to terminate the Heads of Agreement ...

Platinum client yanks $580m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
An institutional client will pull about $580 million from Platinum Investment Management. The unnamed client will take the money out of the Platinum Trust Funds over the course of October and November following a manager review. "It is expected the ...