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IFM Investors expands into Canada

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... opportunities within the country's dynamic infrastructure and investment landscape, that benefits Canada, strengthens the global economy, and helps secure the retirement savings of working people." The continued global expansion comes after IFM Investors ...

Brookfield, sovereign wealth fund sign AI joint venture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... have with Brookfield, this JV will advance Qatar's National Vision 2030 and help build a diversified, innovation-based economy for future generations." Locally, QIC sees great opportunity in the AI infrastructure space, however said assets like large-scale ...

Nuveen brings global real estate strategy to Australia

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... from demographic and structural megatrends, such as urbanisation, technological innovation and the rise of the knowledge economy." "We're pleased to bring this strategy to Australian wholesale investors, providing access to a differentiated portfolio ...

Boman Group scores licence to expand China investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... list on public markets, as well as undervalued local businesses. It aims to back industries that are modernising China's economy, while opening up new opportunities for Boman's investors in Australia and across the Asia Pacific. It is also pursuing a ...

Chalmers spurs on private sector investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... technology. It's a similar story for housing." Chalmers said while there is "no shortage of challenges" in the Australian economy, the private sector recovery "so conspicuous" in the national accounts means the nation can confront global volatility and ...

MSCI launches index combining public and private equity investments

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
... portfolios. This generates opportunities for diversification, long-term return potential and exposure to segments of the economy that are not captured by public markets, MSCI said. The breakthrough framework combines the MSCI ACWI IMI and the MSCI All ...

Record investment into AI forcing largest innovation buildout ever: BlackRock

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... starting and concentrated in the tech sector, for now, but we see productivity and revenue gains spreading across the economy. "The gap in time between capex needs and eventual revenues means AI builders have started using debt to get over a financing ...

ASIC eyeing advisers recommending private credit funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... that private credit will increasingly be done well in Australia, with benefits to individual investors and the broader economy," Kirkland said. Kirkland said because Australia has a higher concentration of private credit lending to the property sector ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... largest export destination by far, offloading mostly an abundance of iron ore and bringing in about $143 billion to the economy, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity. Aitken theorises that China's President Xi Jinping is slowly moving ...

Government cracks down on financial abuse via coerced directorships

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... economic abuse in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence affects more than 2.4 million Australians and costs the economy around $10.9 billion per year. The consultation noted that majority of victim-survivors of financial abuse are women. ...