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

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... skills who can readily upskill and reskill to move to the highest value roles. As our services economy expands and manufacturing becomes increasingly advanced, Australians will need more extensive skills and training," the report read. Adopting the latest ...

Legalsuper celebrates double digit returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... Balanced product, but also include sizeable allocations to global companies Sea, AppLovin, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Goodman Group and Wesfarmers domestically. According to Legalsuper's website, financial year to date, the Growth option ...

Australian Ethical, CEFC pour $30m into climate tech venture

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... investment will speed up the advancement of technology essential to climate transition. "... including rapid prototyping, manufacturing, and exposure to market competition. The climate tech space in Australia is vibrant, and this is an important time ...

Quinbrook appoints new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... month, as the regional leader for North America is Giulia Siccardo. She was most recently the inaugural director of manufacturing and energy supply chains at the US Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. In that role she oversaw the deployment of tens ...

State Street's plan for power, product, partnerships

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... asset managers from simple product providers in the asset owner space," he said. In saying that, with regards to the manufacturing element of what an asset manager does, the primary goal, he said, is to deliver the investment objectives clients are looking ...

Small construction firms drag productivity: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... construction as measured by output per hour worked grew by just 17%. Conversely, labour productivity grew by 58% in manufacturing over the same period. Small construction firms' poor productivity is contributing to such inefficiencies, starting with ...

Global X China Tech ETF in the works

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... launch of the Global X China Tech ETF (ASX: DRGN), the firm said the country's years of strategic investment in manufacturing capacity, digital infrastructure and research capabilities are now translating into "operational scale" across multiple sectors. ...

New Forests buys into Burapha

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... Mirova's sustainable land use strategy have invested in Burapha, a Lao-Swedish plantation and wood products manufacturing company. New Forest now has a 76.5% stake in Burapha while Mirova and another minority shareholder gained a smaller stake. With ...

Global X to launch AI infrastructure ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... in the supply of electric utilities and infrastructure, energy management and optimisation, data centre equipment manufacturing, thermal management, and production and refinement of copper and uranium used to power and operate AI infrastructure. Global ...

Allegro sells Questas stake for $375m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... market leading services to its tier one customers, while further diversifying into the resources, infrastructure, manufacturing, defence and emerging technologies sectors," Taylor said. "We look forward to continuing our growth in partnership with Five ...