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Future Fund head exits on top with 14.8 per cent return

Strong global equity markets, a focus on active management and low exposure to bonds has lifted Australia's sovereign wealth fund to more than $289 billion.

AAP

Hollow promises: Labor's side-stepping out of tune with bullish vow on miners

Phillip O'Neill: Hunter MPs silent as key transition authorities seem unwilling to dirty their boots

Newcastle Herald

Future Fund eclipses $250b after bumper return

Australia's sovereign wealth fund has delivered a strong result for financial year 2025, despite significant global economic turmoil.

AAP

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Trump speeds Future Fund's retreat from US markets

Chair Greg Combet says Australia's Future Fund must diversify its portfolio, including with investments in domestic data centres, to insure against volatility.

AAP

Coalition vows to overturn extra Future Fund priorities

Adding clean energy and housing as supplementary investment priorities for Australia's sovereign wealth fund has drawn sharp rebuke from the opposition.

AAP

Australia’s Future Fund to invest in housing, infrastructure and energy transition under new mandate

Sovereign wealth fund’s statement of expectations will be updated for the first time in 15 years

The Guardian - AU

Former MP recognised for politics and banking

Greg Combet was the Member for Charlton between 2007 and 2013.

Newcastle Herald

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Hunter's energy transition a task equivalent to post-WWII reconstruction

What will the Net Zero Economy Authority deliver?

Newcastle Herald

Australia faces postwar-style reconstruction to reach net zero target, Greg Combet says

‘Pipeline’ of clean projects being assembled, according to head of agency charged with multibillion-dollar transformation

The Guardian - AU

Region's economic future hangs on Greg Combet's Press Club announcement

At long last, Greg Combet will tell us what's going on.

Newcastle Herald

Net Zero Economy Authority remains a work in progress a year on from launch

Net Zero Agency has been consulting about transition needs.

Newcastle Herald

Changing of the guard at Future Fund puts Combet at top

Former ACTU leader and Labor minister Greg Combet is the new chair of Australia's sovereign wealth fund, replacing Liberal stalwart Peter Costello.

AAP

Hunter economy hoping for better run after more stops than starts

Economic drivers beyond population growth and coal are crucial.

Newcastle Herald

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Former climate minister Greg Combet on Australia's mission to reach net-zero

As climate minister in the former Labor government, Greg Combet has endured the rigours of the “climate wars”. He oversaw the highly contentious move to put a price on carbon, which ultimately came to grief under the Abbott government.

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Newcastle Herald

Hunter and the nation has a lot riding on transition body's success

CRUCIAL LEADERSHIP: Combet ready to set out body's purpose and path

The New Daily

Ex-Labor minister to head new net-zero agency

Former Labor climate change minister Greg Combet will chair the agency tasked with smoothing out any bumps in the transition to renewable energy sources.

Newcastle Herald

Ex-Hunter minister to head new net-zero agency

The ex-union boss will chair the newly-established organisation.

ABC News

Does Labor plan to use your super as a 'piggy bank' to fund its pet projects?

The Coalition says Labor plans to use your super as a 'piggy bank' to fund its pet projects. What are the facts?

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Broken promises can be toxic for governments, so axing the stage-three tax cuts could be right but risky

It’s going to be a tough call – one of many that await the Labor government in 2023

ABC News

Labor's federal election review finds focus on Morrison's character 'highly effective', cites concern for loss of 'heartland' support

Labor veterans Greg Combet and Lenda Oshalem have dissected Labor's federal election campaign, its policy offerings and results, coming up with 27 recommendations to establish "a long-term, progressive Labor government".

ABC News

Former carbon pricing mastermind Greg Combet backs proposed fix for Australia's energy crisis

Former federal climate change minister backs proposed fix for crisis-riddled national electricity market, calling for ideology to be taken out of debate.

The Guardian - AU

Australian superannuation industry leaders to visit Indonesia to turbocharge business ties

Former Labor frontbencher Greg Combet says group will examine viability of infrastructure investment opportunities as Australia tries to move past its reliance on China

Newcastle Herald

'Tremendous influence': Pat Conroy's hopes for the Hunter

Australia's new Defence Industries Minister Pat Conroy plans to build on the foundations that his predecessor Greg Combet laid to make the Hunter one of the world's top aerospace hubs.

The Guardian - AU

‘I am who I am’: Anthony Albanese rushes towards his date with destiny

Can the Labor leader persuade Australians that his passion and emotional investment are the qualities they need in a PM?

ABC News

There is something acting a lot like a carbon price in our economy and it is called risk

Chaos is bad for superannuation funds and climate change could mean a lot of chaos. Mary Delahunty, who analyses these scenarios for one of the country's biggest super funds, takes us inside the attempt to reduce uncertainty.

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