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Australian profits flat as global earnings soar to record highs

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
... are stronger than they were pre-pandemic, and the discipline of capital return has spread beyond the US. Markets such as Japan and China have significant headroom to increase shareholder distributions, while in those with tighter cover, like the US ...

Aware Super bets big on data centre boom

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... owns Vantage Data Centers APAC (Vantage APAC) which currently holds more than 10 large data facilities across Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. This deal is the latest collaboration between the $210 billion super fund and sector specialist ...

I Squared Capital rolls out $300m sustainable energy solution

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... the pan Asian platform Hexa Renewables, which has more than two gigawatts (GW) of solar, wind and energy storage assets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines and India, also secured by long term contracts.

Chalmers globetrots to sell minerals for foreign investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has travelled to the United States for a series of meetings with his international counterparts as he seeks to sell more of Australia's critical minerals in exchange for more foreign investment hitting Australian shores. "This ...

Australia evades tariff shocks, CPI to surge in 2026: UN

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026
... Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) reciprocal tariff baseline rate of 10%, the report said. Meanwhile, the effective tariff rate for Japan was 14.7%, and for South Korea, 14.5%, reflecting the reduction of the IEEPA reciprocal tariff baseline rate applied to ...

Global trade a patchwork of relationships, regional priorities: Analysis

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
... groupings of economies. BCG identified these two groupings as 'Plurilateralists', including countries like EU members, Japan, Canada and Australia. Similarly, 'BRICS+ excluding China', which includes original BRICS members, as well as ...

AirTrunk plants second data centre in Victoria

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 DEC 2025
... a new hyperscale campus in Osaka (OSK2), delivering up to 100 MW of IT load and a $3 billion of new direct investment in Japan. Commenting, AirTrunk founder and chief executive Robin Khuda said: "Australia has set bold ambitions to become a global AI ...

CPP Investments, Goodman Group partner in $14bn data centre deal

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... follows the establishment of the Goodman Hong Kong Data Centre Partnership and other data centre partnerships in Europe and Japan. The European transaction will settle in phases and is expected to be completed by March 2026. Goodman Group chief executive ...

'Unretiring' a global trend: T. Rowe Price

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... US and Hong Kong. The research, which surveyed more than 7000 retirement savers in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom, also demonstrated economic and financial uncertainty among savers. It found that 50% of respondents ...

Australia's 'Super 6' embrace total portfolio approach: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
... The biggest asset owner was Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management with US$1.7 trillion in assets. Second place was Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund with US$1.6 trillion, followed by China's SAFE Investment Company with US$1.4 trillion. ...