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Macquarie AM partners to buy UK wastewater service provider

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... demands facing the region," Bradley said. "With the help of our investors' capital, Southern Water will have the financial resources to maintain its positive momentum. While it's been a difficult time to raise private sector capital for a UK water company ...

Perennial Partners expands sustainable offerings

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... relating to the fund. Perennial executive director Anthony Patterson said the firm will continue to reinforce all necessary resources to ensure that investment opportunities can be captured. "In particular, with chief investment officer Tim King and ...

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... 2023, making it one of the top-funded sectors behind enterprise software. People-focused sectors, such as edtech, human resources, and diversity and inclusion-related innovations, faced a sharp pullback, reflecting investor caution around long sales ...

Wollemi Capital buys renewables platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... expertise make it uniquely positioned to create future value through combining its investment expertise and financial resources with the skills, assets and opportunity that the MPower business brings." The transaction is expected to complete on August ...

Young workers drive DEI in workplace: RIAA panel

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... years. On gender diversity, fellow panelist Jennifer Hewett, award-winning journalist, said there's progress being made. Resources giant BHP said in 2016 that it wanted the gender split in the business to be 50-50 by 2025. "They haven't quite got there ...

Calls for government to strike while green iron is hot

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... world decarbonises, our fossil fuel exports will inevitably decline. But by using our unparalleled renewable energy resources to make green iron, we can replace those exports with high value, zero carbon products that the world will need." According ...

Macquarie shareholders call for transparency

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... "Macquarie is emerging as the 'drill baby drill' bank of Australia. It's financing companies like Empire Energy and Tamboran Resources to develop dangerous fracking in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin, completely at odds with the Paris Agreement's ...

Clean energy transition a top priority for productivity: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... 'stuff'. It means making the most of what we have - the skills and experience of our workforce, new technologies, and our resources - so we can get more out of our economy." The reform areas the PC is seeking input on include increasing business investment ...

HESTA divests MinRes over ongoing governance issues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA divested its remaining shareholding in Mineral Resources (MinRes) following the resignation of the miner's entire ethics and governance committee just six months after it was established. The $89 billion fund put MinRes on watch in October last ...

Bill Gates to give away wealth in next 20 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... economy. "As Microsoft turns 50 years old, it feels right that I celebrate the milestone by committing to give away the resources I earned through the company," he said. "A lot can happen over the course of 20 years. I want to make sure the world moves ...