
2023 preview: Australia PE

Market pressures on Australian businesses, including an increasingly serious labour shortage, are a challenge and opportunity for domestic private equity. So is China, but in less discernible ways
Australian portfolio companies and prospective investments will continue to twist under a labour shortage that has increasingly plagued the business sector across the board in recent years. The most impacted...
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