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Geopolitical risks to drive infra investments: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
The report indicates infrastructure investments have emerged as a key tool for investors to mitigate risk, with allocations expected to rise 20%. The PM700 tracks responses from over 700 senior investment professionals at an international scale and ...

HMC Digital Infrastructure appoints new senior executive

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
HMC Digital Infrastructure (HMC) has appointed Michael Juniper as a new senior executive on the board of HMC Digital Infrastructure, and a director of the DigiCo platform. Juniper brings over two decades of experience in digital infrastructure, including ...

ART invests $1bn in Macquarie fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... investment objective of MGECO is to make equity and equity-like investments in a diversified portfolio of sustainable infrastructure, real assets, and businesses." The investment from ART comes after another super fund, Australian Ethical, put Macquarie ...

Future Fund achieves 12.2% in FY25, tops other instos

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... assets have been well rewarded," he said. The fund took major stakes in data centre developer and operator CDC and infrastructure and housing, including a 10% stake in Transgrid. In June, the Future Fund was allowed to manage a portion of its portfolio ...

World's pension market hits $36.9tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... strong member inflows, consolidation and more aggressive investment strategies, particularly in private markets and infrastructure," Boston-Clark said. "In contrast, government super funds typically exhibit maturing membership bases, lower contribution ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, announced it would spend US$500 billion over the next four years to build new AI infrastructure. About one week later, a little-known startup from China, DeepSeek, claimed it does not need the laggard infrastructure to function ...

RBA 'alert' to impact of tech on the economy: Bullock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... generating inflationary pressure? How will investment in their enabling capital, such as data centres and energy infrastructure, spillover to the economy? "These are open questions, and we need to be alert to different possible impacts." Bullock said ...

Igneo Infrastructure Partners expands leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
The infrastructure manager has named two new partners, with one also being appointed to the role of global head of capital formation. Carolyn Pearce and Daniel Timms have been appointed as partners at Igneo, the infrastructure arm of First Sentier Investors. ...

Schroder urges 'open dialogue' with government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... chief executive Paul Schroder has warned that while superannuation funds may have the capital to invest in future infrastructure projects, the government should bear the risks. Speaking at the National Press Club, Schroder said the potential for super ...

Using super as 'piggybank' would be a 'disaster': Schroder

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... Treasurer Jim Chalmers is taking steps to encourage super funds to invest in things like housing, green energy and infrastructure to address the country's productivity problem. Schroder has argued that super fund's priority will always be what is in ...