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Future Fund under fire for business class hotel research trip and Disneyland visit
Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt sent his executive assistant on a business class trip overseas to inspect hotel rooms.
- James Massola
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Why this $260b investment giant isn’t convinced there’s an AI ‘bubble’
The boss of the Future Fund does not think there’s an AI bubble, noting the taxpayer-owned fund has “a very large exposure to AI across the whole value chain”.
- Chris Zappone
The pay packets at these Aussie companies made a major investor mad
The $252 billion taxpayer-owned Future Fund is a huge ASX investor, holding stakes in firms across the index. A new report shows how it voted at annual meetings last year.
- Clancy Yeates
The US has become a riskier place to invest: $240b taxpayer-owned fund
Future Fund chair Greg Combet says even if Trump administration policies are reversed, we’re unlikely to see a return to “business as usual” from investors.
- Frances Howe
- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
Greg Combet: Julia Gillard sounded me out on the leadership. I made the right call
Greg Combet was not born on the wrong side of the tracks. In 1960s Rooty Hill, there weren’t any tracks at all.
- Peter FitzSimons
- Opinion
- Investing
Do the changes to Australia’s $230 billion giant mean anything?
Some argue the new mandate for the taxpayer-owned Future Fund won’t change that much. But if that’s the case, then why do it?
- Clancy Yeates
Future Fund was doing its job, so why change it?
Jim Chalmers is a good treasurer, but he is trying to pull a swifty with his new mandate, writes one reader.
Chalmers says Future Fund can’t be trapped in Costello’s past
Jim Chalmers has accused predecessor Peter Costello of being rolled into a “deliberately unhinged” attack on plans to encourage the $230 billion Future Fund to invest in new homes, renewable energy and cybersecurity.
- Shane Wright
‘Very bad’: Costello slams Chalmers over Future Fund
The former treasurer says the Future Fund was never created to be a “political slush fund”.
- Shane Wright
Future Fund told to sink cash into homes and green energy
The $230 billion Future Fund was created to stop a black hole in the federal budget. It’s now been tasked with investing in housing, energy and infrastructure.
- Shane Wright