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Madigan Capital chair retires, transfers shares to co-owner

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... Barry Brakey has assumed the role of board chair, while chief executive Chris Wilson has become chair of the investment committee. Wood believes he is departing at a time when the company is ready for the next phase of growth. "While choosing to retire ...

ESSSuper welcomes new board chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... organisations. She has been on the fund's board since November 2021, including chairing its transformation and technology committee. She has previously held executive roles at ANZ Banking Group and World Vision Australia and currently serves on several ...

Treasury to reform managed investment scheme governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... mandatory for auditors of compliance plans, while REs should notify ASIC of the appointment, removal or resignation of committee members. This is in addition to increasing ASIC's data collection powers on the retail MIS sector and forcing superannuation ...

Challenger-led consortium bids for Pepper Money

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... with its continuous disclosure obligations," Challenger added. Pepper Money said it established an independent board committee (IBC) to assess the proposal. The IBC has granted Challenger a period of exclusivity to undertake its due diligence and "progress ...

RBA overlooked government spending in rate hike: Hearing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... upping the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 3.85% on Tuesday. At a hearing of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics this morning, Liberal Minister for Cook Simon Kennedy sought to get to the bottom of what exactly is driving ...

JANA strengthens debt research with senior Mercer hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
JANA Investment Advisers has hired an investment grade debt specialist from Mercer to lead its research in the area. The asset consultant said the appointment builds on its established investment grade debt expertise as clients navigate increasingly ...

Trump taps Kevin Warsh as new Fed chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... the Fed with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment over testimony Powell gave at the Senate Banking Committee in June 2025. The testimony was related, in part, to a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings. ...

Super moves: ART, Allianz, HESTA, AusSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... as managing its green and social bond programmes. The ESG expert also served on Deutsche's Fixed Income Executive Committee and Global Institutional Coverage Executive Council. Before that, she ran Deutsche's Central and Eastern Europe, Middle ...

HMC Capital wholesale head exits for COO position

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... representative on six affiliate boards, was a member of the Office of the Responsible Entity and sat on the ESG Steering Committee for Challenger Ltd. Earlier in his career, he worked in corporate finance at GPT Group and as an investment analyst at ...

Integro announces first east coast hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... & Associates). His background spans client review strategies, staff leadership, mergers and acquisitions, investment committee work and building new client pathways. Integro managing partner Justin Gilmour said the business is seeing strong demand for ...