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South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... foreign currency assets. The new fund will be able to invest more broadly, including "proactively acquiring good companies overseas through M&A and investing in domestic ventures". It said it will divide the investments into direct equity investments ...

Boman Group scores licence to expand China investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... bridge between Australia and China." Using the new licence, it plans to introduce around $200 million (RMB $1 billion) of overseas institutional capital in its initial phase. It said this capital will be directed to fast-growing Chinese companies, including ...

Brookfield, GIC seal $4bn National Storage REIT acquisition

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... shareholders, the court, as well as regulatory approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board and the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office. "The consortium is pleased to present NSR securityholders with this compelling offer for their stapled securities. ...

Morningstar widens private credit coverage, kicks off with Metrics

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... of the things that differentiates Morningstar from other research houses. We can leverage if there's insights from overseas," Olsen said. Olsen said that while other research houses have put the private credit sector on watch and advice groups are ...

Brookfield, GIC chase $4bn acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... approvals, including the Foreign Investment Review Board, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and New Zealand Overseas Investment Office approvals. "The NSR board, together with its financial and legal advisers, carefully assessed the ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... inflows totalling $5.3 billion, making this the largest yearly drop in percentage terms in 14 years. The pullback seen in overseas investment also reflects a drop in overall corporate investment activity in Australian agriculture, he writes in the Australian ...

Advice sector looks to offshore talent to bridge skills gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... executive and founder Danielle Cornelissen said offshoring has substantially moved from transplanting repetitive tasks overseas. Many businesses have invested in teams based offshore, she said, particularly in their development, and helping them not ...

UniSuper commits over $760m to Macquarie AM's infra strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... Commenting, UniSuper head of private markets Sandra Lee said MAM's strategy offers a pipeline of high-quality investments overseas possessing structural themes like decarbonisation, digitisation, and technological innovation. "These are compelling investments ...

Half of super investments now offshore: NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
... Report has found that the $3 trillion APRA-regulated superannuation industry now has more than 50% of its assets invested overseas. The report draws on survey responses from 37 Australian superannuation funds, representing more than 80% of the industry's ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Australians do not want their super invested in digital assets, despite some super funds and overseas pension funds dipping their toes in. According to Swyftx's fifth Annual Australian Crypto Survey, based on a survey of some 3009 Australian adults ...