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What to expect in the 2025 Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... discretionary spending. Spending announcements already made include on health, student debt relief, infrastructure, manufacturing, and cost-of-living support. The budget is expected to deliver spending measures but to seek to not put upward pressure ...

Splintered globalisation a boon for AI, metals, EVs: PGIM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... globalisation and nationalism. The report, A new era of globalisation, shows that countries that already have some manufacturing capabilities in place today are "often more attractive as friend- or near-shoring candidates in the future." Investors should ...

Powerhouse Ventures to launch flagship fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... out in sectors such as the space economy, quantum computing, next generation AI and materials science for onshored manufacturing. Powerhouse said it would seek to transfer its investment positions in around nine private companies worth in aggregate approximately ...

India Avenue launches active ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... market while carefully managing these risks," he said. The fund invests in several sectors, including technology, manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, energy, and infrastructure. The active ETF, Siva said, marks the next stage of growth for ...

Australia can benefit from China's economic growth amid trade war: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... again." He said the Chinese economy is now representing a consumer-driven economy, no longer solely dependent on manufacturing. "In 2023, 85.6% of the country's GDP growth was attributed to the consumer. That declined somewhat last year, as manufacturing ...

Quinbrook, CATL to build battery storage solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... Future Made in Australia ambitions which should encourage our existing energy intensive industry and builders of new manufacturing that Australia is the place to be." Quinbrook has some US$6.9 billion of equity capital invested in 40 gigawatts of energy ...

CSC-backed fund manager to launch in Netherlands

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... market-leading, thoughtful in their value proposition, crisp in their purpose, agile in risk-management, and capable of manufacturing the types of sustainable net return streams that our customers need. We are energised by our partnership with Osmosis ...

Local family office backs new venture to invest in climate tech

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... mining. These sectors align very well with fundamental and bipartisan thematics around energy security, domestic manufacturing, national resilience and independence," it said. "Increasingly the economic fundamentals driven in large part by dropping power ...

Financial services minister Stephen Jones to retire from politics

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... representative "who'll continue to fight for the things that matter." He cited a well-funded TAFE system, a future for manufacturing, cheaper childcare, restoring Medicare, affordable housing, and better infrastructure for growing suburbs. Jones ...

Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... global economic growth. Supporters say it will benefit national security, diversify supply chains, boost domestic manufacturing, and strengthen alliances with like-minded countries. Three-quarters of executives say their organisations are reducing supply ...