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Super moves: Future Fund, NZ Super, Aware Super, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
... associate portfolio manager within its credit income team. Chan joined the $200 billion fund from ACEN Australia, a renewable energy platform, where she served as corporate finance manager. She previously spent over eight years at AustralianSuper, most ...

Macquarie AM to acquire Last Mile Infrastructure and Energy Assets Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... Great Britain National Gas, and Britain's largest gas distribution network Cadent Gas. MAM is also invested in UK renewable energy infrastructure including solar power and battery storage developer Island Green Power, and global battery storage developer-operator ...

Spain plans sovereign wealth fund launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... primarily invest in sectors like artificial intelligence (AI), digitalisation, healthcare, housing, infrastructure, renewable energy, the circular economy and water. It will be funded through €10.5 billion in EU funds and is aiming to raise another ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... solutions such as electrified transport, green ammonia and fertilisers, battery production, regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and low-carbon construction materials. While high levels of spending on low-carbon technologies remain rare, the research ...

Chalmers globetrots to sell minerals for foreign investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... Australia helping to create stronger and more diverse critical minerals supply chains. "Whether it's our resources or renewable energy, our skills or stability, Australia has exactly what the world needs, when the world needs it, and that's well understood ...

Global X reveals 2025 top performing ETF asset classes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
... buildouts to support AI workloads significantly lifted expectations for copper demand, while electric vehicles, renewable energy and grid infrastructure continued to drive structural consumption growth. "At the same time, constrained supply, tariff concerns ...

China's two speed economies: Which one wins?

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... economy is moving towards high-end manufacturing, technological advancement from semiconductors to AI, robotics and renewable energy. Lin noted that currently Robeco is focusing on three key themes of consumption recovery, technological advancement and ...

Productivity Commission makes 47 recommendations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... Electricity Market could save around $8 billion over the next 15 years, without compromising the achievement of state renewable energy targets. "Achieving net zero at least cost and adapting to the effects of climate change are central to our productivity ...

Chalmers flags pension, super spending in Budget update

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... pick up in business investment off the back of big increases in private sector spending on new technology and renewable energy. "Updated estimates for business investment will show the forecast in 2025-26 has doubled to 3%. That's very good for our economy ...

Ontario Teachers' sells majority stake in Sydney desalination plant

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... source of drinking water, the plant is a critical asset for Greater Sydney, OTPP explained. Completely powered by renewable energy, the facility operates year-round and has the capacity to produce up to 250 million litres of water per day. This translates ...