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Brookfield, GIC chase $4bn acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... approvals, including the Foreign Investment Review Board, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and New Zealand Overseas Investment Office approvals. "The NSR board, together with its financial and legal advisers, carefully assessed the ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... inflows totalling $5.3 billion, making this the largest yearly drop in percentage terms in 14 years. The pullback seen in overseas investment also reflects a drop in overall corporate investment activity in Australian agriculture, he writes in the Australian ...

Advice sector looks to offshore talent to bridge skills gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... executive and founder Danielle Cornelissen said offshoring has substantially moved from transplanting repetitive tasks overseas. Many businesses have invested in teams based offshore, she said, particularly in their development, and helping them not ...

UniSuper commits over $760m to Macquarie AM's infra strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... Commenting, UniSuper head of private markets Sandra Lee said MAM's strategy offers a pipeline of high-quality investments overseas possessing structural themes like decarbonisation, digitisation, and technological innovation. "These are compelling investments ...

Half of super investments now offshore: NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
... Report has found that the $3 trillion APRA-regulated superannuation industry now has more than 50% of its assets invested overseas. The report draws on survey responses from 37 Australian superannuation funds, representing more than 80% of the industry's ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Australians do not want their super invested in digital assets, despite some super funds and overseas pension funds dipping their toes in. According to Swyftx's fifth Annual Australian Crypto Survey, based on a survey of some 3009 Australian adults ...

Shield, First Guardian fallout calls for tougher scrutiny on research houses, licensee governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... can't be insourced to the same adviser who's running 150 clients," he stressed. However, with exposure to the US and overseas, Akiki identified that Australian advisers perceive doing everything themselves as a competitive advantage, which is ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Ben Hillier's 83-year-old mother recently went on her fourth overseas holiday this year. It was, says Hillier, at his insistence. A few years ago, his mother was convinced she wouldn't be able to travel anymore. She couldn't afford to do ...

ASX releases consultation on shareholder approval requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... Super and HESTA. ASX said it has worked to refine the scope through research into local transactions, comparisons with overseas exchanges and feedback from asset owners, fund managers, and professional advisers. The consultation paper focuses on four ...

Super funds to double UK, EU investments over next decade

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... have invested $83 billion in the UK and $181 billion in the EU, equivalent to nearly one in every five dollars invested overseas by these funds. With the ongoing trend, it is estimated to grow by 10-11% each year by 2035, reaching $203 billion in the ...