Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products. It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit."
The Carlyle Group is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and private credit. It is one of the largest mega-funds in the world. In 2015, Carlyle was the world's largest private equity firm by capital raised over the previous five years, according to the PEI 300 index, though by 2020, it had slipped into second place.
Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, consumer-finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds, individual asset managers, and some government-sponsored enterprises.
HM Prison Won Wron was a minimum security prison located at Won Wron near Yarram in Victoria.
Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.
Municipal services or city services refer to basic services that residents of a city expect the city government to provide in exchange for the taxes which citizens pay. Basic city services may include sanitation, water, streets, the public library, schools, food inspection, fire department, police, ambulance, and other health department issues and transportation. City governments often operate or contract for additional utilities like electricity, gas and cable television. Mumbai even provides a lighthouse service.
Michael Clifford Fitzpatrick is an Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former professional Australian rules football player. He was chairman of the AFL Commission from 2007 to 2017.
Private equity funds and hedge funds are private investment vehicles used to pool investment capital, usually for a small group of large institutional or wealthy individual investors. They are subject to favorable regulatory treatment in most jurisdictions from which they are managed, which allows them to engage in financial activities that are off-limits for more regulated companies. Both types of fund also take advantage of generally applicable rules in their jurisdictions to minimize the tax burden on their investors, as well as on the fund managers. As media coverage increases regarding the growing influence of hedge funds and private equity, these tax rules are increasingly under scrutiny by legislative bodies. Private equity and hedge funds choose their structure depending on the individual circumstances of the investors the fund is designed to attract.
The Country Roads Board was a government authority responsible for the construction and maintenance of main roads in the state of Victoria, Australia between 1913 and 1983.
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) is a Canadian Crown corporation and institutional investor established to manage several public funds and pensions headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. AIMCo was established by an act of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 2008 under the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Ed Stelmach.
VicTrack, the trading name of Victorian Rail Track Corporation, is a Victorian Government state-owned enterprise which owns all railway and tram lines, associated rail lands and other rail-related infrastructure in the state of Victoria, Australia, with the exception of the Emerald Tourist Railway Board's heritage Puffing Billy Railway.
Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, including $372 billion invested in credit, including mezzanine capital, hedge funds, non-performing loans and collateralized loan obligations, $80.7 billion invested in private equity, and $46.2 billion invested in real assets, which includes real estate and infrastructure. The company invests money on behalf of pension funds, financial endowments and sovereign wealth funds, as well as other institutional and individual investors. Since inception in 1990, private equity funds managed by Apollo have produced a 24% internal rate of return (IRR) to investors, net of fees.
China Asset Management Co., Ltd. is one of China's biggest fund families. The company offers investment managers of National Social Security Fund, corporate annuities, Listed Open-end Fund (LOF), Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) funds and Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) funds, etc. It is the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager in China, and the sole investment manager of Asian Bond Fund China Fund. The company is the first in the industry to initiate the investment philosophy of Research Creates Value. ChinaAMC was established in 1998 and is headquartered in Beijing, China, with branches in Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Hangzhou, and three subsidiaries-China Asset Management, China Capital Management, and China Wealth Management. Li Yimei is the CEO of the company. As of December 31, 2020, ChinaAMC is one of the largest fund management companies in China with $245.5 billion in Assets Under Management, and a client base comprising nearly 60,000 institutional clients and over 164 million retail investors.
A Registered Aboriginal Party (RAP) is a recognised representative body of an Aboriginal Australian people per the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 (Vic.), whose function is to protect and manage the Aboriginal cultural heritage in the state of Victoria in Australia.
The Victorian Ports Corporation (Melbourne) (VPCM) is a statutory authority of the Government of Victoria created to succeed the Port of Melbourne Corporation as the government regulator of shipping in Port Phillip Bay after the lease of the Port of Melbourne in 2016. In 2021, it was merged with the Victorian Regional Channels Authority into a new agency, Ports Victoria.
Alison Sarah Cupper is an Australian politician. She has been an Independent member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018, representing the seat of Mildura and was a previous Labor candidate.
Kaushaliya Virjibhai Vaghela is an Australian politician. She is the member of the Victorian Legislative Council since December 2018, representing Western Metropolitan Region. She is the first Indian-born member of the Victorian Parliament. Before her preselection in 2018, she worked as a part-time adviser to then-State Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robin Scott.
