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Rest to sell Endeavour stake

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... Endeavour Energy in 2017, when the NSW government sold 50.4% of the company to a consortium comprising Macquarie, Rest, Canada's British Columbia Investment Management and Qatar Investment Authority. The NSW government retains 49.6% of the electricity ...

Global investors look to strike gold: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023
... traditional role of gold and gold mining as a safe haven against inflation and recession fears," he said. Respondents resided in Canada, Australia, US, UAE, France, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Review calls for Reserve Bank overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023
... of which is a recommendation to split the RBA board in two - much like the structure of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada. This would see the creation of a Monetary Policy Board and a Corporate Governance Board; the former would look at monetary ...

Government divulges vision for superannuation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 APR 2023
... co-operation to another level, he added. Jones highlighted that superannuation fund representatives from various countries, like Canada, Denmark, and Singapore, are actively seeking to invest in Australia's infrastructure, housing, commercial property ...

Treasury urged to consider housing in super objective

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 APR 2023
... across all pillars, including home ownership." Further, REIA said the government should look to the schemes in place in Canada, New Zealand and Singapore for young homebuyers. In Canada, the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive program offers 5 or 10% of ...

Top 10% pocket 93% of Australia's wealth: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... a global outlier in the maldistribution of gains from economic growth, falling behind the EU, the US, the UK, China and Canada. However, the Australian Institute said, the results reflect a worldwide trend: an examination of other economies confirms ...

Canadian VC fund invests in Aussie fintech

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
TELUS Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Canada's most active corporate venture capital fund Telus Corporation, has made an undisclosed capital injection into Australian agri-fintech company Digital Agriculture Services (DAS). The investment ...

The traditional CFO is no more: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023
... and an annual revenue of at least $50 million across the US, UK, Australia and South Africa, and at least $5 million in Canada. It discovered that over the last 12 months, Australian chief financial officers have seen increased responsibilities in identifying ...

LIC hunts for investment manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023
... 2022, HGV held 77% of its assets in cannabis companies. It is looking to exit Weed Me, a craft cannabis producer based in Canada and HGV's largest investment to free up about $11 million. Overall, the portfolio's net asset value dropped by 40% for the ...

Aussie equities withstand test of time: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... analysis, covering 98% of the world market capitalisation, the Australian market had the second lowest volatility after Canada. "Our bond market produced an annualised real return since 1900 of 1.6% in AUD terms, well above all country average of 0.6% ...