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FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... acceptable returns net of fees. Funds unable to meet performance standards or deliver efficient services faced closure or merger, driving the push for "mega-funds" in the industry. The results were quick. KPMG's Super Insights 2025 report shows the ...

Most read in 2025: Executive appointments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... chief Former Aware Super head of advice Sarah Forman was appointed chief retirement officer at Team Super ahead of its merger with TWUSUPER to create a $21 billion fund. Forman took up the new role at Team Super, which was rebranded from Mine Super on ...

Most read in 2025: Superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... super trustees in preventing, detecting and responding to scams and fraud activity. Equip Super, TelstraSuper terminate merger plans Equip Super and TelstraSuper called off their proposed merger in May, with the latter saying it was unlikely to achieve ...

Coastline Advice, Edge Advisory Partners to merge

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
... mortgage broking, and will specialise in corporate super. AZ NGA executive general manager Chesne Stafford described the merger as a step in the right direction for broader plans to build a scaled advice business in regional Victoria and New South Wales. ...

Super moves: Aware, VFMC, CareSuper, UniSuper, NGS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
Aware Super has added former Future Fund investment chief Sue Brake (pictured) to its trustee board, effective 1 January 2026. Brake has been an independent member of the Aware Super Investment Committee since April and brings more than 30 years of ...

Nambawan Super taps former Prime Super boss for top job

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
Papua New Guinea's Nambawan Super has appointed a new chief executive, naming Australian superannuation veteran Lachlan Baird to lead the country's largest defined contribution government fund. Baird brings more than two decades of superannuation ...

Mark Delaney to step down from AustralianSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... officer in the country," he said. Delaney became chief investment officer in 2006 when AustralianSuper was created via the merger of Australian Retirement Fund and Superannuation Trust of Australia; Delaney was chief executive of the latter, while former ...

South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
South Korea is establishing another sovereign wealth fund, with this one to be modelled on the Future Fund. Launching the National Growth Fund yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Yooncheol Koo said the government would ...

Betashares-backed firm names inaugural managing partner

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... capabilities. The firm, which now manages a range of managed account investment solutions, was formed through the recent merger of Betashares' managed accounts business and InvestSense and operates as a standalone entity supported by Betashares Financial ...

EWM to buy three advice firms

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... Sunshine Coast. In support of the new partnerships, MTP Financial partner and financial adviser Anthony Menico described the merger as improving efficiency and delivering cost synergies. "This merger benefits us all in achieving better future outcomes ...