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HESTA logs record downsizer contributions in 2025

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
HESTA has logged a record year for downsizer contributions in 2025, driven by a surge in the end of year spring selling season. Downsizer contributions rose to $94 million in the year, a more than 8% jump from the previous year. The $100 billion super ...

Diverse leadership cements business growth, positive workplace culture: HESTA

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
A new report found that all signatories to the 40:40 Vision initiative believe that greater gender diversity has benefited workplace culture and business performance, but women remain "significantly" underrepresented in executive leadership teams (ELTs) ...

Granite Bay Private Wealth launches, taps BlackRock

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
Former QIC and Morgan Stanley staffers have launched Granite Bay Private Wealth and appointed BlackRock as its outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO). Granite Bay is founded by Brisbane-based Steve Moon, who is also the managing partner. Moon was ...

KKR chief operating officer steps down

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026
Private equity and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) announced that Ryan Stork will step down from his role as chief operating officer effective immediately. KKR announced the departure of Stork in a regulatory filing dated January ...

Super moves: WATC, Medibank, HESTA, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
Western Australian Treasury Corporation has appointed Mathew McCrum as head of markets. McCrum joins from U Ethical Investors, where he spent nine months as a fixed income consultant. Before that, he managed fixed interest at UniSuper and spent two ...

Trump plans to ban large investors from buying homes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
US President Donald Trump says he will look to ban large institutional investors from buying up certain residential properties. In a social media post this morning, Trump said he is "immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from ...

HESTA records over $10bn in investment returns

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
HESTA members saw over $10 billion added to their retirement savings in 2025, driven by strong investment performance. The default MySuper Balanced Growth option returned 9.42% for the 2025 calendar year, recording above the industry average of 9.1% ...

Lazard sets up new chief investment role

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
Lazard Asset Management has created a new role of a chief investment officer and appointed Eric Van Nostrand. The US$265 billion asset manager said the newly established role will strengthen the cohesion, discipline and effectiveness of its global investment ...

No room for a neutral stance in 2026: BlackRock

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
The market is ripe for active investing, the BlackRock Investment Institute said in its annual global economy and financial markets outlook report. The inertia of mounting geopolitical tensions and a rapidly unfolding artificial intelligence (AI) buildout ...

FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
In 2019, then APRA chair Wayne Byres had a blunt message for superannuation funds: "Are you going to get better, or are you going to get out?" The question marked the decisive shift in the regulator's tone, making its agenda explicit: super funds ...