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Apex to acquire Mercer's super admin business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... investments, alongside Mercer Workforce Solutions and Mercer Marsh Benefits". Mercer recently lost its administration mandate with NGS Super, with the fund transitioning to GROW Inc. It also lost a mandate with Australian Ethical and, in 2023, ANZ Staff ...

Super funds' external fund manager spend hits $2bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
Superannuation funds spent more than $1.9 billion on external fund manager fees last financial year, with nearly 60% of the amount going to equity fund managers, according to APRA figures. The prudential regulator's breakdown of super funds' ...

Fund managers 'remarkably positive' despite headwinds: Frontier

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... fund managers such as Tyndall Asset Management and Touchstone Asset Management shuttered following the loss of a major mandate. Since the survey launched, Frontier observed the number of super funds diminish by two thirds and the size of some portfolios ...

FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
In 2019, then APRA chair Wayne Byres had a blunt message for superannuation funds: "Are you going to get better, or are you going to get out?" The question marked the decisive shift in the regulator's tone, making its agenda explicit: super funds ...

ART takes 20% stake in Westfield Sydney, hands mandate to QIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 DEC 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will snap up 19.9% stake in Sydney's iconic Westfield mall from Scentre Group for $864 million. Scentre Group will retain 80.1% of the retail asset and remain its property, leasing and development manager. QIC will ...

UniSuper acquires $200m industrial assets portfolio

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... behalf of UniSuper by real estate investment management firm Richmond Bridge, under an industrial property investment mandate.

BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
PME Pensioenfonds, a Dutch pension fund with $105 billion in assets, has terminated an $8.9 billion equity mandate with BlackRock due to the manager's misalignment with the fund's environmental, social and governance framework. According to a release ...

Why a single insto client is a massive business risk

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
The closures of several active fund managers following the loss of a major mandate has underscored the importance of having a diversified client base, as one $2.2 billion manager warns this has become a substantial business risk. This year alone saw ...

Brookfield, sovereign wealth fund sign AI joint venture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
Brookfield is partnering with a newly established subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) to fund and develop artificial intelligence infrastructure. Earlier this week, the QIA launched Qai, a dedicated AI company. The aim is for Qai to develop ...

ASIC class relief for digital assets now effective

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... Forte Securities Australia, in the following week. The move was announced alongside a government consultation proposing to mandate digital asset providers offering financial products to hold an Australian financial services licence (AFSL). Meanwhile ...