25th July, 2024
Affordable and social housing is emerging as a focus for state-owned investors (SOIs) who see opportunities for real estate asset growth as well as addressing social responsibility in their ESG mandates.
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22nd July, 2024
The Australian Retirement Trust’s (ART) absorption of the A$9 billion (US$6 billion) Qantas Super marks the latest in the succession of consolidations within the Australian pension sector and places ART as a leader in merger and transition in Australia.
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2nd July, 2024
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC has teamed up with Metro Pacific Tollways to buy up a 35% stake worth US$1 billion in a network of toll roads on Indonesia’s island of Java, in what could be a record year for investment by state-owned investors in Asian toll road networks.
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13th June, 2024
Two Australian sovereign wealth funds - Future Fund and QIC - have teamed up to buy the EastLink toll road network from their New Zealand counterpart NZSuper and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America.
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10th May, 2024
Mubadala is joining in the modern day goldrush for green hydrogen, focused on Australia where the government is backing efforts to utilize renewable energy for new industrial purposes.
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16th April, 2024
PSP Investments’ acquisition of around 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales is an example of a tide of capital by Canadian state-owned investors in Australia’s vast agricultural sector.
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1st April, 2024
Aware Super is Australia’s third largest profit-for-member industry superannuation fund, with AU$ 175 billion (US$ 114 billion) under management on behalf of 1.2 million members and a brand-new office in London. We had the pleasure of speaking with its CEO, Ms. Deanne Stewart, about the fund’s strategy, future objectives, female leadership and how the industry needs to evolve to meet future retirement needs.
29th January, 2024
Australia’s Future Fund has hired a new chair to take over from the long-standing leadership of Peter Costello, with the Labor government choosing a politician – Greg Combet – from their own ranks, whose career has focused heavily on combating climate change.
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30th May, 2023
The Netherlands’ public pension fund managers APG and Bouwinvest have swung their weight behind an Australian build-to-rent (BTR) partnership with student accommodation leader Scape Australia founders, Stephen Gaitanos and Craig Carracher.
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27th March, 2023
Singapore’s GIC and Temasek have taken the unusual step of combining forces to back the take-over of Australia’s largest integrated power generator and energy retailer, with a view to supporting the country’s net zero goals.
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5th December, 2022
Australian super fund HESTA has boosted its AUM to nearly A$70 billion (US$57 billion) with more than 970,000 members following its merger with the smaller, 60-year-old Brisbane-based Mercy Super fund, which has 13,000 members.
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26th October, 2022
Australian inflation soared to a 32-year high in Q3 amid rising costs of house building and energy prices, and if sustained it could challenge AustralianSuper’s returns targets.
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