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Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... to do that is to reach out to our region. We've got neighbours who desperately need renewable energy such as Japan, Korea and Singapore. We have neighbours who have huge decarbonisation opportunities because of industrialisation and demographics ...

Korean pension fund takes $50m stake in Metrics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
The National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea - the worlds third largest pension fund - has acquired a 4.17% stake in Metrics Credit Holdings for $50 million. This comes seven years after Pinnacle Investment Management paid $46 million for a 35% equity ...

Aussie ETF market tipped to hit $300bn in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... in February, surpassing $250 billion in FUM. While Australia enjoyed a steady 26% growth in 2024, which is ahead of South Korea (24%), but remains miniscule against China which has become the fastest-growing ETF market at a whopping 75% growth year on ...

PIMCO hires former Global X sales lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... added to its suite of products with an ETF fund that tracks the Russell 2000 Capped Index. The firm is a member of South Korea-based Mirae Asset Financial Group and features over 90 ETF strategies and more than US$45 billion in assets under managemen ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... geopolitics is very complicated. It's scary. It's complicated - how we're going to deal with Russia, Iran, North Korea, and ultimately with China," he said. Despite the positives, he admits there is a sense of gloom in the US economy. "I ...

Macquarie AM splashes billions on Applied Digital Corporation

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... focus on hyperscale infrastructure. It recently acquired the Hanam Data Centre located in the greater Seoul area of South Korea, despite offloading its stake in AirTrunk through a mammoth deal that was worth over $24 billion. MAM senior managing director ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... equities, but ultimately it sees more value in the latter. "We have noted in our paper that we also like China and South Korea... [as] US equities are on the expensive side," she added. "There are enough opportunities [outside the US] including commodities ...

CapitaLand buys Wingate, expands local presence

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... years, while also flagging he sees "scalable private credit opportunities" in other Asia Pacific markets, including South Korea, India, and Japan. Incoming managing director for Wingate Nick Jacobson, who will oversee the business, said: "Wingate is ...

TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... TPG, Bonderman also served on more than 80 corporate boards, including Ryanair, General Motors, Ducati, MGM, Univision, and Korea First Bank. "Despite David's success, he never changed. He remained curious, meeting constantly with young entrepreneurs ...

FX expert jumps from Insight to HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... He was also manager of treasury sales for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Australia and a money market dealer at Korea Exchange Bank in London.