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Emerging markets, private assets lift NGS Super FY26 performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2026
... de-dollarisation trends and central bank demand for gold. The fund also benefited from liquid alternatives, including biotech and long-short strategies, as healthcare and biotechnology sectors rebounded from prior-year weakness. However, it was the super ...

Super funds to reap returns from $2.2bn biotech exit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2026
... 2026, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. "Building biotech companies from early-stage concepts into medicines that improve patients' lives takes time, conviction and, of course capital," ...

South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
South Korea is establishing another sovereign wealth fund, with this one to be modelled on the Future Fund. Launching the National Growth Fund yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Yooncheol Koo said the government would ...

Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... (second) and critical infrastructure (third). They are followed by adverse outcomes of frontier technologies (quantum, biotech, geoengineering) at fourth place, and by the decline in health and wellbeing at fifth place. Compared with the G20 average ...

Macquarie terminates more options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... Energy Transition Metals ETF, Lazard Global Listed Infrastructure, Milford Australian Absolute Growth Fund and Global X S&P Biotech ETF. One new option that was added to the updated termination list was the Loftus Peak Global Disruption Fund Hedged Active ...

QIC backs Queensland startup for faster cattle breeding

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
QIC Ventures has invested $10 million in Queensland agritech firm Nbryo, helping advance its cattle reproductive technology that can reduce seven years of breeding into a week. The seed raise, led by existing investor Tenacious Ventures alongside QIC ...

'We have entered a new economic era': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), along with other emerging technologies such as quantum computing, robotics, biotech and genomics. "Classic economic questions are being asked about the impact of this new technology on overall productivity and ...

VG1 replaces investment manager, books massive loss

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... his management and oversight of the VG1 portfolio since June 2023," Jones said. VG1's FY25 performance was marred by biotech company Opthea, which was written down to zero after unsuccessful phase three clinical trials. "This was a disappointing ...

Australian investment in venture capital lags: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... innovators could boost investment returns for everyday Australians. "Australia has shown it can punch above its weight in biotech, medtech, AI and quantum - all productivity gamechangers that could be supercharged, yet we're seeing too many of our brightest ...

Top companies, chief executives ranked by fund managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... Finance), Gary Brown of AGL Energy (Utilities & Alternative Energy), and Joy Carolyn Linton of CSL (Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech).
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