Media releases

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, is pleased to announce the appointment of Darryl Burke as Chief Risk Officer (CRO), effective 17 March 2025.

Following an extensive search and selection process, Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, has announced the appointment of Phil Fraser as its next Chief Financial Officer.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of the nation’s largest super funds, today announced a new operating model to drive its next phase of strategic growth.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest super funds, entered into an agreement with Qantas Super affirming both parties’ intentions to merge.

Australian Retirement Trust, one of Australia’s largest super funds, has delivered an 11.3% return for its ART High Growth option for the 2023/24 financial year.

Australian Retirement Trust has expanded its Advice, Guidance and Education team with a new structure to deliver on the Fund's strategy of an advice-led retirement for its more than 2.3 million members.

Australian Retirement Trust, has released research looking at how Australians are interacting with their super and planning for retirement.

Australian Retirement Trust, one of Australia’s largest superannuation (pension) funds, has opened its first overseas office in London as it seeks to further capitalise on international investment opportunities.

Australian Retirement Trust has been named the winner of not 1 but 2 categories in the 2023 Finder Awards.

Two exceptional leaders are joining the board of Australian Retirement Trust (ART), bolstering the fund’s governance and succession planning.

Australian Retirement Trust has unveiled a streamlined suite of choice investment options across superannuation and retirement products, available to members from 1 July 2024.

Australian Retirement Trust has announced the appointment of David Anderson as its next Chief Executive Officer following an extensive global search and selection process.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of the nation’s largest superannuation funds, is welcoming the Federal Government’s proposal to overhaul how Australians access financial advice.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest super funds, has successfully merged with the $12.3b Commonwealth Bank Group Super (Group Super) plan.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, has been named as the winner of Finder’s Customer Satisfaction Awards for 2023 in the super funds category.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, has announced the appointment of Jody Fitzgerald as Head of Investment Resilience and Planning.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) received an upgraded Morningstar Medallist Rating^TM for four of its Super Savings diversified investment options (Growth, Balanced, Retirement, and Conservative) from ‘Bronze’ to ‘Silver’.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has won Best Super Fund as voted for by financial advisers and the Fund’s Acting Chief of Retirement, Anne Fuchs, Industry Thought Leader of the Year at the 2023 SuperRatings Super Fund of the Year Awards.

Australian Retirement Trust targets 43% emission intensity reduction by 2030 across specified asset classes with launch of its Net Zero 2050 Roadmap.

The ART Board has today announced that Bernard Reilly has informed them of his intention to leave the Fund in February 2024, two years after executing Australia’s largest superannuation merger.

Australian Retirement Trust, has completed a Successor Fund Transfer (SFT) with Woolworths Group and Endeavour Group, welcoming over 25,000 new members from Australia’s largest employer.

Research commissioned by one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, (ART), found 22 per cent of West Australians are likely to have multiple super accounts. This compares to 15 per cent in New South Wales, 12 per cent in Victoria and 16 per cent in Queensland.

Australians are heading online to learn about superannuation like never before, with searches relating to superannuation as much as doubling over the last four years.

A research article commissioned by ART has found that the skills clients value most in a financial adviser are simplicity, trust, and confidence to work in their best financial interest when seeking advice on retirement planning.

Australian Retirement Trust has delivered a 10% p.a. return for its Super Savings Balanced option for the 2022/23 financial year.

According to data commissioned by ART, 71% of Australians don’t know that the current Super Guarantee (SG) rate is 10.5%.

Australian Retirement Trust supports the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament as an important step towards reconciliation.

Australian Retirement Trust has announced the appointment of industry veteran Kathy Vincent as Chief of Retirement.

Australian Retirement Trust and AustralianSuper have welcomed the Government’s proposed reforms to the Quality of Advice Review today.

ART has announced 3 new appointments to the Fund’s wider leadership team to best position the $240 billion fund to deliver on its vision to be Australia's most chosen and trusted retirement partner.

Australian Retirement Trust has taken another step in its commitment to reconciliation with the launch of a Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest super funds, is celebrating the five-year milestone of its industry first super payments system, Beam.

Australian Retirement Trust entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Alcoa of Australia Retirement Plan (Alcoa Super) on 14 March 2023, ART’s third merger announcement since the start of the year.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has today announced changes to its executive structure to deliver on its vision to be Australia's most chosen and trusted retirement partner.

Australian Retirement Trust has appointed several prominent Australian leaders to its Board of Directors and Investment Committee.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), has been awarded “Fund Manager of the Year - Multisector” at the 2023 Morningstar Australia Awards.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) strongly supports the public consultation on the proposed review of the objective of super.

Australian Retirement Trust has today announced that they have chosen State Street Corporation (State Street) as their preferred and primary custodian and investment administrator following a tender process.

Australian Retirement Trust has today announced that they have chosen State Street Corporation (State Street) as their preferred and primary custodian and investment administrator following a tender process.

Australian Retirement Trust is the first super fund to launch a digital tool to streamline the super onboarding process for employers and their employees.

Half of Australians feel financially stressed at least once a week, new survey by Australian Retirement Trust finds.

Australian Retirement Trust has been awarded Money magazine’s ‘Best Innovation – Retirement Innovator’ at the annual Best of the Best Awards 2023.

Calls to rebrand superannuation education for employees as professional development ‘a huge opportunity’.

Australian Retirement Trust welcomes federal budget affordable housing announcement.

ART welcomed the opportunity for Chief Executive Officer Bernard Reilly to participate in today’s Queensland Housing Summit in Brisbane.

Don Luke retires as Chair of Australian Retirement Trust, Andrew Fraser appointed as new Chair.

Australian Retirement Trust (ART), one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, has partnered with institutional investment manager QIC to finance new social and affordable housing supply in Queensland.

Australian Retirement Trust has announced Aaron Santelises joined its Board of Directors effective from 30 June 2022.

Australian Retirement Trust, the $200 billion dollar superannuation fund formed by the recent merger of Sunsuper and QSuper, has recorded a return of -0.96% for its Super Savings Balanced option for the 2021-22 financial year.

Australian Retirement Trust, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, has introduced new financial advice fee caps so more Australians can access quality advice.

Australian Retirement Trust, has cemented its position as one of the largest and most highly awarded funds in Australia at last night’s Chant West awards.

Australian Retirement Trust, has today announced the superannuation fund’s first major appointment since finalising its merger on 28 February, appointing Nicole Bradford to the role of Head of Sustainable Investment.

Australian Retirement Trust, the $230 billion dollar superannuation fund formed by the recent merger of QSuper and Sunsuper, has today published its portfolio holdings as at 31 December 2021. 

Australian Retirement Trust has instructed its investment managers earlier this week to sell any remaining debt and equity investments and not to make any new investments in either Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus, which has now entered the conflict alongside Russia.

The Australia Post Superannuation Scheme (APSS) has formally agreed to merge with one of Australia’s largest and fastest-growing funds, Australian Retirement Trust.

The merger of QSuper and Sunsuper to become Australian Retirement Trust, the second largest super fund in the country with over 2.4 million members and more than over $300 billion in funds under management, has now been finalised.

Australian Retirement Trust, the over $300 billion fund that will be formed through the proposed merger of QSuper and Sunsuper, has achieved a major milestone with both funds’ boards approving the merger to proceed. 

QSuper and Sunsuper have today announced that the over $300 billion fund resulting from their proposed merger early next year will be called 'Australian Retirement Trust'.

The executive team that will lead the over $300 billion superannuation fund resulting from the planned merger of QSuper and Sunsuper has been finalised with two new appointments.

Two major superannuation funds have welcomed Queensland Government legislation that will support the creation of a new national superannuation fund headquartered in Queensland.

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The structure of the executive team that will lead the over $300 billion superannuation fund resulting from the planned merger of QSuper and Sunsuper has been announced.

The QSuper Board and Sunsuper Pty Ltd today announced they had signed a Heads of Agreement to merge and create a over $300 billion superannuation fund, servicing 2.4 million members and open to all Australians.

 QSuper and Sunsuper have today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter into a period of exclusive due diligence to explore a merger.