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Mitsui, Nomura to acquire New Forests

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... central to the transition to a sustainable future. Mitsui's managing officer and chief operating officer, performance materials business unit Hiroshi Kakiuchi said: "Mitsui's investment in New Forests is part of our sustainability strategy to invest ...

Recession-style policy but no recession: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... ministers, warning about the challenges of delivering on this vision. We've got shortages or high prices for raw materials, challenges in machinery, key inputs, key labour challenges, and challenges simply just managing these contracts." Coming out ...

Nanuk AM lists active ETMF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2022
... efficiency, agriculture, water, waste management, recycling, digital technologies, advanced manufacturing, and sustainable materials. "All of these areas are undergoing significant changes as the world seeks to reconcile economic growth with longer term ...

Supply chain, labour shortage fears: Analysts

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... recover from the pandemic. The annual Fidelity survey of analysts covering energy, consumer discretionary, healthcare, materials, telecoms, consumer staples, industrials, technology, utilities, and financials pointed to a rise in management confidence ...

Global dividend income growth to continue: Plato

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
... in many parts of the global market." Pennell highlighted the significant strengthening of dividends from the global materials, consumer discretionary and financials sectors. "Booming commodity prices earlier in the year helped strengthen balance sheets ...

Australia bucks concentration trend

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... ASX 200 and S&P 500, we can see how the sector dynamic played out during this period," Olazabal said. "The weight of materials and financials declined for both indices, while information technology increased. "However, the information technology sector ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... consumers have so much money to spend them on but more because covid has infected workers working mines to dig up raw materials factories need to produce the components necessary to manufacture widgets; the people to transport them, and those that load ...

Pension scheme, UBS divest energy companies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 DEC 2021
... change risks and opportunities are material, including 46 companies across automobiles, chemicals, construction and materials, electricity, industrials, utilities, metals and mining, and oil and gas producers.

Economic recap: Week to November 26

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... of pandemic restrictions and re-opening of businesses; supply chain constraints; rising costs of raw and intermediate materials used in production; higher wages; or all of the above - has already prompted financial markets to bring forward the timing ...

FPA launches female mentoring program

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
... will commence in February for six months with training provided to mentors and will include online training and reading materials for mentors to help guide the mentoring relationship, webinars and monthly contact between mentors and mentees. "Our challenge ...