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Macquarie suffers first strike on pay package

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... compensated $12.7 million in total. The head of Macquarie Capital, Michael J Silverton, has a pay packet of $11.7 million. "So far as remuneration impacts are concerned, this will be an FY26 matter, about which the board will come to a view over the ...

Law firm eyes First Guardian, Shield class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... potentially been wiped out, leaving more than 12,000 Australians out of pocket. "These are people's savings, and they deserve far better than this. Superannuation is meant to be tightly regulated, and many investors likely believed their money was safely ...

Federated Hermes 'not far away' from launching Australian wholesale products

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
Federated Hermes has primarily engaged with the institutional market, notably superannuation funds, in Australia, but this is set to change as the firm looks to tap into the local wholesale market. Federated Hermes international head of sales Clive ...

Investments, advice complaints jump 18%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... towards the end of the financial year we saw an uptick in some scam types that cause great harm. The number of scam cases are far too high and behind every case is a consumer who has been traumatised and often suffered life changing impacts." Overall ...

VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Following the departure of VFMC's head of portfolio strategy and asset allocation Leanne Taylor, senior portfolio manager Kuek Chyuan Low has stepped into the role in an interim basis. Taylor resigned from the role she held since 2022. She told ...

Brighter Super awards $75m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
Brighter Super has awarded a $75 million mandate to Riparian Capital Partners to boost its agricultural assets. The $28.5 billion superannuation fund is allocating the funds to the Queensland Riparian Agriculture and Food Transition Trust (QRAFT). Brighter ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
While Australian investors breathed a resounding sigh of relief when US President Donald Trump binned section 899 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), local multinationals, however, were lumped with grave uncertainties surrounding the global Pillar ...

Super moves: TCorp, Mercer, Commonwealth

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... Australia. In the short term, he has some consulting work lined up focused on developing a reasonable steps framework under the FAR regime, which will give him time to plan his next move. Previously, Firth worked at Challenger, Barclays Capital and AT ...

Rest Super loses investment risk lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Rob Leck has just finished up as the head of investment risk at Rest Super and is looking for a new home within the pension sector. For around half of his four years at the superannuation fund, Leck worked as a senior investment manager. He has spent ...

Brighter Super default members earn 11% in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
Brighter Super's MySuper option achieved 10.9% p.a. for the 2025 financial year, exceeding performance for the medium and long term. The latest result outpaced the three-, five- and 10-year time horizons of 10.3% p.a., 8.2% p.a. and 7.2% p.a. respectively. ...