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Super for housing debate heats up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... inward migration, restrictions on supply which at the moment include planning regulations, red tape, frontloading of infrastructure charges, shortages of manpower and materials caused by competition from government infrastructure projects, and low productivity ...

ASIC, RBA handed new financial market infrastructure powers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have been given new powers under new financial market infrastructure laws to enhance their licensing, supervisory, and enforcement abilities. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and ...

RBA doubling down on wholesale CBDC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... with today's ESAs... Yet another (though less potentially transformative) possibility is that the supporting infrastructure for ESAs is upgraded, to provide for more functionality than is currently available," the report said. This follows the RBA's ...

Muzinich & Co. partners to launch infrastructure debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Muzinich & Co. has announced its partnership with Hong Kong-based Orion3 Group to launch an Infrastructure and Real Assets Private Debt Strategy, with an initial focus on Australian opportunities. Orion3 is an investment platform formed with CK Asset ...

Future Fund restructures investment leadership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... directors of real assets. Bluff will oversee the private equity and credit teams, while Fisher will look after the infrastructure and property teams. Sam Killmier will be managing director of investment capability and intelligence, which includes investment ...

Lazard AM brings Japanese equities fund to Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... September 10. The launch follows that of Lazard's ETF offerings in Australia earlier this year, which saw a $2 billion infrastructure active ETF enter the local market. The Global Listed Infrastructure Active ETF eyes investments in operators across ...

Macquarie AM launches emerging markets equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... expense ratio is sitting at a relatively high 0.85%. The new offering sites alongside the Macquarie Global Listed Infrastructure ETF (BILD); Macquarie Energy Transition ETF (PWER); Macquarie Tax-Free USA Short Term ETF (STAX); and Macquarie Focused Large ...

Traditional economic indicators have 'tanked': Economist

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... pandemic. "Australia's population growth went up by 650,000 people last year. That had massive implications for infrastructure projects, the pipeline of work that had to be done in infrastructure and residential projects," she said. "That's not really ...

Macquarie AM, PSP Investments sell AirTrunk stake to Blackstone, CPP Investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... capitalize on our highest conviction theme. AirTrunk is another vital step as Blackstone seeks to be the leading digital infrastructure investor in the world across the ecosystem, including data centers, power and related services," Blackstone president ...

Future Fund annual return 'very strong'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024
... with the culture of the organisation, the capability of the team, and the investments of the fund in Australian infrastructure assets such as airports, a major port, renewable energy and telecommunications and data centres," he said. "These are important ...