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Pacific workers face barriers to claiming super: University

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... millions unclaimed. There are over 31,000 PALM workers filling labour shortages in rural and regional Australia's agriculture, aged care, hospitality, and tourism sectors as of March. Uni SA senior lecturer and manager of its tax clinic Rob Whait highlighted ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... at an agreed price, QIC explained. These contracts cover a broad spectrum of commodities including energy, metals, agriculture and other sectors and are marked-to-market daily. Further, commodity futures contain low funding requirements, the ability ...

Australian Ethical calls out QBE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... - Australian Ethical said it was concerned that almost half of QBE's underwriting business is in property and agriculture and is therefore exposed to the physical risk of climate change. As a shareholder, the investment manager said it is concerned ...

New Forests buys into Burapha

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... billion in assets under management across nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies. Its subsidiary New Agriculture recently launched a landscapes and natural capital investment strategy that invests in rainfed and irrigated row cropping ...

ANSC's Australian Food & Agriculture takeover tanks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation's (ANSC) bid to acquire the Bell family and Alastair Provan-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company (AFA) for $780 million fell through. Nasdaq-listed ANSC, a special purpose acquisition company ...

Underinvestment in Southeast Asia a 'big issue' for Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... taken over 300 investors and corporate to the region with "specialised focus" across renewable energy, technology and agriculture. Financial Standard is a media partner of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific 2025.

The productivity problem: Good ideas never put to use

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... innovation - applying new ideas and doing more with what we have also matters." The annual bulletin shows that the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry saw the fastest multifactor productivity growth at 7.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24, while multifactor ...

Warakirri hires regional manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... Faehndrich joins at a pivotal time for the business as it looks to broaden its retail footprint by leveraging its existing agriculture and equities offerings, and as it actively seeks to add and distribute new investment partners as part of the growth ...

Spatium partners to launch wholesale agricultural fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
Spatium Capital has kicked off a new joint venture with Invest Inya Farmer (IIF), an agriculture production assets investment platform, to provide wholesale investors access to private agriculture production assets across Australia and New Zealand. ...

QIC backs Virescent Ventures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... million in 37 investments that help transition the world to net zero. The portfolio spans clean energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, and smart cities. The firm invests in pre-seed to growth stages, with a focus on maximising emissions reduction ...
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