{"id":393483,"date":"2026-01-07T08:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393483\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:17:12","slug":"mercer-intensifies-retirement-investment-focus-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393483\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercer Intensifies Retirement, Investment Focus In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEditorial Staff &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t7 January  2026&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inset-img\" alt=\"Mercer Intensifies Retirement, Investment Focus In Australia \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Financeagreement.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">The lift-out deal helps Mercer, it said, concentrate on its &#8220;core wealth businesses&#8221;. \t  \t  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\\\/section.php?keywords=Mercer\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercer<\/a> in Australia is pivoting&#13;<br \/>\n  towards its core wealth businesses as it transfers superannuation&#13;<br \/>\n  administration operations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthbriefingasia.com\\\/section.php?keywords=Apex%20Group\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apex Group<\/a>, the financial&#13;<br \/>\n  services provider.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  The lift-out transaction, subject to regulatory approval, is&#13;<br \/>\n  expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of this&#13;<br \/>\n  year, Apex said in a statement yesterday. The financial terms&#13;<br \/>\n  were not disclosed.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Apex has 400 employees in Australia providing a range of&#13;<br \/>\n  administration services to more than 800 funds within the&#13;<br \/>\n  industry.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  \u201cAustralia offers strong growth potential for us. The&#13;<br \/>\n  superannuation technology and servicing sectors are a key&#13;<br \/>\n  strategic focus for Apex Group,\u201d Peter Hughes, CEO and founder of&#13;<br \/>\n  Apex Group, said.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Antony Proksa, chief operating officer, Mercer Pacific, said:&#13;<br \/>\n  \u201cMercer\u2019s decision to transition our stand-alone superannuation&#13;<br \/>\n  administration business aligns with our strategic objective to&#13;<br \/>\n  focus on growing our core wealth businesses in superannuation and&#13;<br \/>\n  investments, alongside Mercer Workforce Solutions and Mercer&#13;<br \/>\n  Marsh Benefits.\u201d&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Apex works with asset managers, allocators, financial&#13;<br \/>\n  institutions, and family offices. It was established in Bermuda&#13;<br \/>\n  in 2003. In June 2024, Carlyle\u2019s global credit business and the&#13;<br \/>\n  private credit arm of Goldman Sachs committed more than $1.1&#13;<br \/>\n  billion into the business. Apex has bought several firms. For&#13;<br \/>\n  example, in 2023 it acquired Retransform, a global real estate&#13;<br \/>\n  provider,\u00a0from The Annet Group. In 2022 Apex bought&#13;<br \/>\n  Mainspring, a UK-based provider of venture capital fund&#13;<br \/>\n  administration and accounting services. Also in 2022, it acquired&#13;<br \/>\n  Sanne, which provides alternative asset and corporate services.&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Editorial Staff &#13; &#13; &#13; 7 January 2026&#13; &#13; &#13; The lift-out deal helps Mercer, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[166592,166602,166588,45,49,48,166593,166609,166597,166610,133,166619,166594,166587,166590,166591,166629,166603,166627,166628,166589,166611,166612,166614,166599,166622,166617,166623,166620,166595,166600,166616,166618,131,132,166624,166625,166621,166586,166585,166583,166584,166581,166604,166598,166580,166605,166582,166608,166626,166596,166615,166613,166607,166578,166577,166579,166606,166576,166601],"class_list":["post-393483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alternative-assets-in-asia","tag-asset-allocation-in-asia","tag-asset-management-in-asia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cta-in-asia","tag-estate-planning-in-asia","tag-estates-in-asia","tag-family-office-in-asia","tag-finance","tag-financial-planning-in-asia","tag-financial-services-compliance-in-asia","tag-fund-management-in-asia","tag-fund-of-funds-in-asia","tag-fund-of-hedge-funds-in-asia","tag-fund-performance-in-asia","tag-global-wealth-management-in-asia","tag-hedge-fund-performance-in-asia","tag-hedge-fund-strategies-in-asia","tag-hedge-funds-in-asia","tag-high-net-worth-in-asia","tag-high-net-worth-individuals-in-asia","tag-hnws-in-asia","tag-inheritance-tax-in-asia","tag-investment-strategies-in-asia","tag-investments-in-asia","tag-managed-futures-in-asia","tag-mass-affluent-in-asia","tag-money-laundering-in-asia","tag-money-management-in-asia","tag-multi-family-office-in-asia","tag-offshore-in-asia","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-portfolio-management-in-asia","tag-portfolio-strategies-in-asia","tag-premier-banking-in-asia","tag-private-asset-management-in-asia","tag-private-asset-managers-in-asia","tag-private-banking-in-asia","tag-private-banks-in-asia","tag-private-client-management-in-asia","tag-private-client-stock-broking-in-asia","tag-private-client-tax-in-asia","tag-private-clients-in-asia","tag-private-equity-in-asia","tag-private-wealth-in-asia","tag-succession-planning-in-asia","tag-technical-analysis-in-asia","tag-trusts-in-asia","tag-uhnws-in-asia","tag-ultra-high-net-worth-individuals-in-asia","tag-wealth-allocation-strategy-in-asia","tag-wealth-briefing-asia","tag-wealth-in-asia","tag-wealth-management-in-asia","tag-wealth-strategy-in-asia","tag-wealthbriefingasia","tag-wealthy-in-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}