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Australia’s Macquarie Group has agreed to repay A$321 million (US$211 million) to nearly 3,000 customers who lost their retirement savings in the collapse of the Shield Master Fund. The repayment follows Federal Court proceedings launched by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), which accused Macquarie Investment Management of failing to act “efficiently, honestly and fairly” by not placing Shield under stricter oversight.
According to ASIC, thousands of investors were directed into Shield between 2022 and 2023 through Macquarie’s superannuation platform. Many believed their retirement savings were secure, despite the fund having no performance history. The regulator emphasized that Macquarie’s failure to implement heightened monitoring left pension investors vulnerable to the fund’s eventual collapse.
The Shield Master Fund was placed into liquidation in 2024 and is currently under investigation for mismanagement of retirees’ money. Macquarie confirmed it will repay the full amount of customer losses by Tuesday, while it attempts to recover some of the funds through the liquidation process led by Alvarez & Marsal. However, the bank cautioned that recovering investor money could take years.
This case marks the second major confrontation between Macquarie and ASIC since May. The regulator previously launched legal action against the bank for allegedly misreporting up to 1.5 billion short sales over 15 years. It is also the fourth enforcement action against Macquarie in the past year, highlighting growing regulatory scrutiny of its investment practices.
While ASIC will not pursue financial penalties—citing Macquarie’s cooperation and the public interest in quick resolution—the bank has agreed to enhance investment governance across its platform under supervision from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. The incident underscores the risks of retirement savings being funneled into high-risk, untested investment products and signals stricter regulatory oversight for Australia’s financial sector.
