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China plays long game on battery disruption

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Reports from consultancy Rho Motion reveal that battery minerals supply is too high for EV demand - here's why analysts say that might not be such a bad thing. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries ...

Meta fact-checking move unsettles ethical investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Meta's decision to swap fact-checking for user-generated community labelling has created a dilemma for responsible investors. While U Ethical and other fund managers exclude the social media giant for ESG non-compliance, others - including Vanguard ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Max Gill has been promoted to senior portfolio analyst with QIC's state investments team. Gill joined the Queensland Government's $68 billion investment arm six years ago working initially with the global multi-asset team followed by the state ...

GAM boosts local sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Following the recent appointment of Eric Finnell as managing director for Australia and New Zealand, GAM Investments has hired a new business development manager to look after wholesale clients. Reporting directly to Finnell, Malcolm Kazal brings with ...

Oaktree veteran jumps to Avari

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
One of the worst-kept secrets in the market has been the departure next week of Oaktree Capital Management's head of Australian real estate investments. Ben Coughlin has joined Avari Capital Partners, the private equity real estate fund and private ...

Partners Group promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Partners Group co-head of private debt for Asia has been promoted to senior investment leader of the firm's private market royalties business. Sydney-based Krish Vaswani has been with the global private market asset management firm since 2016 and ...

GIC's investment chief to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
GIC investment chief Jeffrey Jaensubhakij plans to step down after almost three decades at the sovereign wealth fund, according to local reports. It is widely expected that deputy group chief investment officer Bryan Yeo will be promoted to the top ...

Legalsuper hunts for CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Legalsuper is looking for a new investment chief, following the resignation of Paul Murray who departed the industry fund just nine months into the job. Chief executive Luke Symons confirmed that Murray resigned from the fund on 20 December 2024 for ...

Subscription EVs attract HESTA, IFM interest

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
IFM Investors and HESTA, by way of its mandate with the former, will take a 49% stake in Splend Group, a provider of subscription electric vehicles. IFM Investors has made the investment via its Growth Partners Fund 2, with HESTA and others also investing ...

Podcast: Overcoming barriers to financing the First Nations business sector with Jake Berthelot

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
First Nations businesses in Australia face many barriers to accessing financing, including historically exclusionary policies, institutional barriers, and lack of capital. So today, we are tackling the topic of overcoming these barriers. Jake Berthelot ...