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APG to invest exclusively for ABP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
APG, the Netherlands' largest pension asset manager, will exclusively manage investments for ABP, the country's largest pension fund, starting around 2030. ABP, which owns 92% of APG, said the move aligns with its goal of achieving maximum investment ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... investments team. Before the promotion, he held the role of associate strategist. He earlier worked as an intern at Snowater, the clean energy technology company and Proterra Investment Partners, the alternative investment manager. Meanwhile, William ...

CEFC invests $100m into affordable housing strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... Managers Alternatives' build-to-rent strategy providing affordable homes for essential workers. The investment brings the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) total commitment to residential energy efficiency and sustainability to more than $1.2 billion ...

Subscription EVs attract HESTA, IFM interest

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... across both markets. The company recently secured $300 million in debt financing from Macquarie and $40 million from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which will be used to add thousands more vehicles. "Splend is a high quality, rapidly growing business ...

The productivity bubble has burst: Productivity Commission

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
The latest national account figures indicate that Australia's productivity growth remains in the doldrums, prompting the Productivity Commission to declare revitalising productivity growth as a national priority. September quarter figures showed ...

Treasury flags $23bn in CGT benefits

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... multinationals pay their fair share of tax here in Australia, encouraging investment in important areas like housing and clean energy, reforms to the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax that will see the offshore LNG industry pay more tax, sooner, and improving ...

Chalmers defends budget deficits in MYEFO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his government's mid-year economic fiscal outlook (MYEFO) a "responsible set of books" despite major budget deficits likely to continue for a decade. The MYEFO forecasted a budget deficit of $26.9 billion for 2024-25 ...

Australian Retirement Trust takes stake in Pattern Energy Group

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... will also allow the energy company to fast-track the SunZia Wind and Transmission project - which will generate sufficient clean energy for more than three million US citizens once completed. ART head of global real assets Michael Weaver said: "Australian ...

Productivity Commission tasked with five new inquiries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
The Productivity Commission has been tasked with five new inquiries focused on identifying ways to materially boost Australia's productivity. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the aim of the inquiries is to lift incomes, standards of living and create more ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... time'. "He has stated he'll withdraw from the Paris Agreement, promote investment in fossil fuel production, cut funding to clean energy investment and stop payments to the UN Green Climate Fund," it said. The report said a slow decarbonisation of the ...