QSuper and Sunsuper Merge to Create Australia’s Largest Retirement Fund
QSuper and Sunsuper have agreed to merge, after 15 months of negotiations, to become a single superannuation fund, making it Australia’s largest.
The move, announced on March 15, aims to integrate the two top-performing funds into a new entity with two million members and $200 billion in assets.
QSuper Chair Don Luke and Sunsuper Chair Andrew Fraser said the agreement would pave the way to create “an organisation of world-class capability” with the scale to deliver “outstanding services, greater efficiencies, and lower costs for members.”
“The combination of QSuper’s public sector heritage in Queensland and Sunsuper’s national employer base, combined with a commitment to partnering with external financial advisers, will create a diversified and resilient organisation investing on behalf of 2 million members,” the two entities said in a joint statement (pdf).
By Reuters Staff
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian pension funds QSuper and Sunsuper said on Monday they would merge, forming the country’s largest single manager of retirement savings as regulatory pressure drives consolidation in the industry.
The funds, which are both based in the northern state of Queensland, said they would manage a combined A$200 billion ($156 billion) in retirement money for two million Australians, about a sixth of the country’s workforce, when they join later this year.
The mega-merger reflects the rapid consolidation of Australia’s A$3 trillion pension industry after a 2018 inquiry found fees charged by some managers were unjustified and eroded workers’ savings, and that many funds were not putting customers’ interests ahead of their own.
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