About Borromean Consulting
Duncan McPherson – Principal – Borromean Consulting
Borromean Consulting helps superannuation funds and advice organisations make confident decisions and turn strategy into action.
Borromean works with leaders navigating complex choices across advice, retirement and member engagement — where multiple viable options exist, regulatory expectations are high and execution risk is real. Borromean's role is to bring clarity, surface trade-offs and support decisions that can actually be delivered.
Borromean is led by Duncan McPherson, who brings more than 30 years' experience across superannuation and advice. Over the past decade, Duncan has worked closely with some of Australia's largest and most progressive super funds and digital advice providers — developing board-approved advice strategies, leading the implementation of scaled and retirement advice services, and supporting organisations at every stage from early direction-setting through to delivery.
That experience is grounded in structured research and market insight. Duncan co-authored The Role and Value of Digital Advice in Australia: Building the Confidence to Act, published by the Financial Services Council in collaboration with CoreData Group — the most comprehensive study of Australia's digital advice market to date. His research portfolio also includes The Voice Members Need, The Power of the Engaged Member and the 2025 Digital Advice Market Scan. These are used as practical inputs — helping organisations test assumptions, sequence decisions and reduce delivery risk.
Borromean operates independently and is provider-agnostic, working as a decision and execution partner to executives and boards.
What's with the name "Borromean" Consulting?
The Borromean Rings are a mathematical concept where three rings are interlinked and when any one of the rings is removed the other two are no longer linked. Metaphorically, they represent the interdependance of three parts where all are linked or none are. Borromean has been chosen as the name of this new consulting firm because we fundamentally believe that superannuation, advice and retirement are inextricably linked. They can not be disentangled and, in fact, complement eachother to improve the outcomes of all.
....also
As a Led Zepplin fan, their 4th and untitled album (commonly referred to as "Led Zepplin IV) was characterised by four symbols, one created by each member of the band. The drummer, John Bonham, used what is thought to be the Borromean Rings as his symbol. This has never been confirmed and some think that the symbol may have actually been the brand of John's favorite beer, Ballantine Beer. Either way its a nice foot note to the branding of Borromean Consulting.
