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Cyberattacks on super funds expose 'critical vulnerability'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
The spate of cyberattacks targeting major Australian superannuation funds has laid bare a "critical vulnerability" in the sector's defences, according to financial services cybersecurity consultancy firm Software@Scale. The attacks, which have so ...

TAL takes 15% stake in Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings has sold its entire 15.1% stake in Challenger to TAL. TAL, together with its parent company Dai-ichi Life Holdings, acquired the minority interest at $8.46 per share - marking a 53% premium to Challenger's closing ...

Platinum funds merger to go ahead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
Platinum Asia Investments (PAI) has rejected a non-binding indicative proposal from the PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund and will move forward with plans to merge with the Platinum Asia Fund Complex ETF (PAXX). PAI's independent board reviewed both ...

Super fund growth: The winners and losers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
AustralianSuper has kept its position as the fastest growing super fund by net asset growth, adding $43 billion into its coffers in FY2024. Australian Retirement Trust (ART) followed closely, according to the Conexus Institute's State of Super 2025 ...

Barings expands local wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Barings, the US$421 billion global asset manager, has recruited a sales director to help support its growth into the local wealth market. John Nicoll joins a growing Australian Sales team with 90 private credit, real estate and structured finance staffers ...

Sue Brake joins Aware Super committee

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Aware Super has invited former Future Fund investment chief Sue Brake and Macquarie Group veteran Grant Smith to join its investment committee. The two private markets experts - who have been appointed to the committee for two years - will oversee the ...

DWS fined $43m for greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
DWS will pay $43 million (US$27m) to settle a long-running greenwashing case brought by Frankfurt prosecutors. In 2021, a whistleblower - former DWS group sustainability officer Desiree Fixler - came forward with claims the asset manager was making ...

Investors brace as US unleashes tariffs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
US President Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of tariffs on just about every country, imposing a blanket 10% tariff on all imports from all countries, plus higher reciprocal tariffs on many countries to offset what he believes are barriers to US ...

Macquarie terminates Aussie equity funds

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Macquarie Group has terminated two of its equity offerings, saying they've failed to achieve scale. The Macquarie Australian Equities Fund and the Macquarie Active Plus Equities Fund were terminated late last month. Macquarie said both did not "have ...

Fortitude Investment Partners acquires majority stake in SMSF audit firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
Fortitude Investment Partners has acquired a majority stake in self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) audit firm ASF Audits. The investment will improve ASF Audits' client experience and accelerate future growth; the primary capital investment ...