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FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... workforce shortages and stiff global competition. Ai Group found that after two years of healthy growth following the pandemic, business conditions took a "sudden turn for the worse" when the manufacturing sector entered a recession in mid-2024 and contracted ...

Global resilience is a key systemic risk: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
... we look back over the last five years, what we've had to navigate as investors in terms of, first of all, a global pandemic, huge disruption to supply chains, geopolitical tensions and all that that has meant different sea routes, the introduction ...

Equip Super searches for new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... Michael Cameron said. "He has also provided steadfast leadership through considerable change, including the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing regulatory demands, and ongoing global market volatility." Cameron also oversaw successor fund transfers involving ...

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 ...