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WAM delivers standout 41% return in 2025

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... financials and 12.7% to the industrial sector. "WAM active has progressively rotated positioning towards precious and base metals as we believe these companies are well positioned for near term outperformance as the US continues to reduce interest rates ...

Advisers may be caught by new AML/CTF reforms: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
... including real estate agents, accountants, lawyers, trust and company service providers, conveyancers and dealers in precious metals and stones, will fall into the updated AML/CTF regime, while existing reporting entities will commence reporting to the ...

Macquarie terminates more options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... Lazard, Allan Gray, Global X, VanEck, Vanguard and Zurich Investments. Some of these include the Betashares Energy Transition Metals ETF, Betashares Energy Transition Metals ETF, Lazard Global Listed Infrastructure, Milford Australian Absolute Growth ...

QIC harvests rare earth elements to turbocharge net zero transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... northwest of Cairns, contains significant resources of rare earth elements (REEs) hosted in mineral sands, including magnet metals such as neodymium, praseodymium, terbium, and dysprosium. These are used for electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... future date at an agreed price, QIC explained. These contracts cover a broad spectrum of commodities including energy, metals, agriculture and other sectors and are marked-to-market daily. Further, commodity futures contain low funding requirements ...

Collectables market reaches $17bn: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... dealers, or people who've got a really good understanding of those markets. They may be somebody who works in the precious metals area, whether it's bullion and coins and assets like that," he recently told Financial Standard. Shorte added that some ...

Budget deficit to balloon to $42.1bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... Chalmers said the government would be investing more than $3 billion to support the production of Australian-made green metals, like aluminium and iron. "We're also backing clean technologies through our Future Made in Australia Innovation Fund and ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... funding allocations from the $1.7 billion Future Made in Australia Innovation Fund, which includes $750 million for green metals, $500 million for clean energy technology manufacturing capabilities including electrolysers, batteries and wind towers and ...

Splintered globalisation a boon for AI, metals, EVs: PGIM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
As geopolitical tensions and trade wars derail globalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), metals and minerals, and electric vehicles (EV) are some of the sectors poised to be winners for investors, new research from PGIM shows. This new era of globalisation ...

Clean energy strategies a gateway to long-term growth

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... maturity. While 71% of renewables companies are at the implementation stage or beyond, power and utilities, mining and metals, and oil and gas companies are at 63%, 43%, and 36%, respectively. Willis' head of power and utilities for Great Britain Carlos ...