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UniSuper buys up Deer Park site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024
UniSuper has acquired a $260 million warehouse, logistics and manufacturing development site that will target a 5-Star NABERS energy rating upon completion. The auction of surplus land from Orica in Deer Park, Melbourne has the potential to accommodate ...

New chair for iExtend

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... established AMP's private capital business in 1993, managing investment funds across resources, infrastructure and manufacturing. In this role, he was involved in major public investments such as Optus, as well as privatisations such as Melbourne Airport ...

PGIM executive quits after less than two years

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2023
... private markets." PGIM established its presence in Australia in 2011 and has 22 employees with domestic investment manufacturing capabilities across real estate private equity and debt and debt financing.

Don't believe inflation hype, says Pendal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2023
... assistant portfolio manager on the income and fixed interest team. "At the same time, the US was home to a sizeable manufacturing sector, which was very highly unionised. They had explicit mandates in contracts that matched pay to inflation." Today ...

Top global trends impacting portfolio construction

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023
... decarbonisation." "[With] the combination of COVID-19, supply chain and the need for national resiliency and domestic manufacturing, combined with the politics of Ukraine and Russia, what we're seeing is a strong push by countries for energy security," ...

Active Super to face action over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... they eliminated investments that posed too great a risk to the environment and the community, including tobacco manufacturing, oil tar sands and gambling," ASIC said. "Active Super also stated that they had added Russia to their list of excluded countries ...

Hostplus tops up mandate, returns 8% to members

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
... telecommunications networks; and Additive Assurance, a developer of quality assurance technology for metal additive manufacturing. IP Group chief investment officer Alistair McCreadie said the commitment from Hostplus will support investment in companies ...

Ag sector boosts Australia's productivity

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... industry (-2.8%) experienced the steepest decline in real output and productivity for the second consecutive year. The manufacturing sector also declined at -0.5%. There are potential signs this could reverse, signalling an increase in mining investment ...

Equipsuper adds board director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
The $30 billion superannuation fund which covers workers from engineering, manufacturing, healthcare and teaching, has appointed Julian Widdup to the board as a new member director. Widdup replaces Jan Dekker, who joined the board in 2016. For over ...

Mercer Super to take on corporate fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
... had just shy of 6000 members and $751.3 million. However, it declined further when, in October 2017, Holden ceased manufacturing its cars in Australia and again in 2020 when engineering and design were closed and Holdens ceased to be sold locally. Now ...