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IFM Investors enters student accommodation arena

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... performing with high occupancy and has demonstrated strong resilience, even during challenging periods such as the COVID-19 pandemic. "This project is a clear demonstration of InfraRed's value add approach to delivering infrastructure."

Top Australian CIOs revealed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... economic challenges globally, MySuper assets have continued to grow at above average historical levels since the global pandemic, more than outpacing above average inflation in the same period." Rainmaker Information is part of ISS Market Intelligence ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... cover segments like Australian renewables, US mid-market buyouts in rising rate cycles, or European distressed debt post-pandemic. Instead of relying solely on manager-provided valuations, custodians can cross-reference data against similar assets, market ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... example, has averaged just below 0.4% per year since 2015, compared to the 60-year average of 1.6% p.a. The COVID-19 pandemic was one deterrent in recent years, along with systemic factors that slowed productivity in the lead up to the pandemic. Productivity ...

Regal Partners adds to stable, plans hotels strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... the ANZ hotel accommodation sector." "Following a period of significant price dislocation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and broader economic slowdown, we believe the Australian hotel sector now offers investors the unique opportunity to benefit ...

Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... "Despite employment falling by 2000 people this month, it's up 2.3% compared to May 2024, which is stronger than the pre-pandemic, 10-year average annual growth of 1.7%," ABS head of labour statistics Sean Crick said. "This fall in employment, combined ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... with Australia not for a couple of years, but for a couple of decades. He noted that in the decade leading up to the pandemic, productivity growth was just half the rate seen two decades earlier, and that the 2022 election coincided with the largest ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... shrinking industry, MIESF has recently struggled with declining member accounts and cash flows, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, CareSuper and MIESF confirmed the merger would go ahead, citing their shared member-first heritage and the ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a "productivity bubble", in which measured labour productivity rose to a record high between January 2020 and March 2022 before returning to pre-pandemic levels in June 2023, the Productivity Commission (PC) has revealed. ...

ETF industry growth streak continues, shatters net inflow records

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... selloff, erasing US$5 trillion in S&P 500 market value within 48 hours. That sent the VIX Index to levels unseen since the pandemic panic, and prior to that, the Global Financial Crisis. In April, the most recent reporting date, net inflows totalled ...