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South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... "Temasek in Singapore basically engages in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), invests, and purchases many buildings in industries with future growth potential. However, since the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) manages foreign exchange reserves, it cannot ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... significant weight in real estate and property lending - whereas the US private credit space lends to a broad array of industries," Cousley says. He says the transparency and reporting standards in the US are generally more advanced than in Australia ...

'Outdated' law gating teenagers from thousands of dollars in super: Industry

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... super on their wages. The SMC said girls typically work under the threshold hours in the retail and community services industries, while boys are more likely to work as tradies and labourers, where full-time hours and apprenticeships are common, guaranteeing ...

Boman Group scores licence to expand China investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... companies, including those preparing to list on public markets, as well as undervalued local businesses. It aims to back industries that are modernising China's economy, while opening up new opportunities for Boman's investors in Australia and across ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... and contracted 2.6% over the last year. "While weak economic conditions in Australia have proven difficult for most industries, manufacturing has declined faster and further than any of its peers," Ai Group said. Bruised by the pandemic, which saw manufacturer ...

ASIC to monitor union redundancy funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... those employees. They primarily operate for the benefit of employees in the construction and other allied services industries. The regulator said that in 2003 fund operators had approximately $500 million under management; by 2015, this had grown to ...

T. Rowe and Oak Hill launch flexible credit income fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... leverages OHA's best ideas, seeking to deliver income by lending primarily to large cap companies in a diverse range of industries, mainly in the US. The fund is designed as a diversified strategy, with flexibility to invest up and down the capital structure ...

Rest hires from AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... with a strong commercial mindset and has a proven ability to build effective working relationships across different industries and jurisdictions," O'Neill added. "His familiarity with profit-to-member super funds and the regulatory environment we ...

FAAA launches digital client identification tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... regime will impact financial advisers and licensees. According to AUSTRAC, the new laws expand its regulation into new industries that are recognised domestically and globally as "high-risk for criminal exploitation." "Next year is going to be huge for ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Bupa, QIC, HESTA, Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... mortgage book optimisation programs for domestic banks, and PwC, focusing on operational risk and sustainability across industries including mining, oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, and waste management. He also helped develop a risk-based climate ...