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

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... 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 change adaptation framework ...

Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
Kenya is planning to roll out its first sovereign wealth fund as it looks to safeguard its income derived from oil, gas and minerals mining. The Kenya Sovereign Wealth Fund is designed to provide a buffer from fluctuations in resource revenues or macro-economic ...

Macquarie AM wins sovereign wealth fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... helping drive Saudi Arabia's economic transformation and generate sustainable financial returns. Its cumulative real non-oil GDP contribution between 2021 and 2024 grew to US$243 billion, reflecting its focus on diversifying the Saudi economy outside ...

ART invests $1bn in Macquarie fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... capabilities. We think the transition to decarbonised energy must be managed and orderly," Stevens said. "Simply shutting down oil and gas is not viable. We recognise the reality that even as net zero objectives are pursued, the world will need carbon-based ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... an overarching investment theme. In the 90s, for example, Japan dominated, while the 70s were defined by booming demand in oil and energy stocks. The last 10 years saw a torrent of investor capital flood the US market, bolstering its 'exceptionalism' ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... households typically increased allocations to equities at the top of the market before every major market event, including the 1970 oil crisis, dot com bubble and the GFC. They also reduced their allocations at the bottom each time. "Buying and selling ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... businesses that have the ability to grow their earnings over time, irrespective of whether interest rates are rising or falling, oil prices are rising or falling, or what Trump's policy moves are going to be in the next month. " "The extent that ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... of energy stocks and commodity currencies was also prominent perhaps triggered by Middle East conflict-induced increase in oil prices." Veitmane added that in Asia-Pacific, Australia has captured more inflows into local stocks, bonds, as well as the ...

Activist investor hires distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... and investors. Its latest targets include Southern Cross Media Group, Magellan Financial Group, COG Financial Services and oil and gas explorer Karoon Energy - all now facing pressure from the vocal shareholder. Sandon oversees about $220 million in ...

Hollywood actors lobby pension fund to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union have launched the Retire Big Oil campaign. The campaign asks the US$5 billion ($7.7bn) SAG-Producers Pension Plan to phase out its coal, oil and gas holdings. ...