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Macquarie divests North America, Europe asset management units to Nomura

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will sell its North American and European public investments business that comprise equities, fixed income, and multi-asset offerings to Nomura for $2.8 billion. The business, which is based in Philadelphia, has about ...

New government must prioritise payday super: SMC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... efforts to uplift the existing stapling service or develop a new service to permit real-time integrated validation of employee fund details for any payroll run," SMC said. Payday super is set to take effect from 1 July 2026, three years after it was ...

WTW promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
WTW, the pension consultant, has hired a new head of portfolio design lead and made a series of local promotions following annual performance reviews. Sasha Loutcheva joins from Russell Investments, where she spent three years as a senior asset allocation ...

Janus Henderson to take on $75bn fixed income portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
Janus Henderson has entered a strategic partnership with The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian) to manage its $75 billion (US$45 billion) investment grade public fixed income portfolio. As part of the partnership, Guardian investment ...

The super fund scouring the dark web to protect members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... organisational maturity. As part of that process, the fund implemented a requirement to proactively monitor and measure whether employee data appeared in public repositories, including the dark web. However, the fund's analysis revealed that much of ...

APRA hits ANZ with $1bn capital penalty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... present across the bank. In August 2024, APRA announced several measures in response to the serious issues relating to employee conduct and non-financial risk management emerging in ANZ's Global Markets business. In response, APRA required ANZ to commission ...

Qantas Super, ART merger official

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
Qantas Super and Australian Retirement Trust (ART) officially merged on March 29. About 25,000 members with $9 billion in funds under management (FUM) have moved from Qantas Super to ART. Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy said: "It has been ...

AZ NGA practices merge on road to 'super firm'

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
Eureka Whittaker Macnaught (EWM) and Foster Raffan iPlan have merged to form a large, multi-disciplinary firm serving around 2500 clients. The merged firm is home to 44 employees, including 20 financial advisers, and operates in six locations across ...

Non-compete, restraint clauses to be outlawed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
From 2027, employers will no longer be able to impose non-compete clauses on employees earning less than $175,000. They will also not be able to exploit loopholes that block staff from joining competitors. Announced as part of the Federal Budget for ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Social purpose organisation Good Return has launched its second impact fund, aimed at supporting marginalised female entrepreneurs across the Asia-Pacific region. The evergreenfund is seeking to raise $10 million from Australian wholesale investors ...