Insights
Aurex Group Welcomes Mabelene Ang Back!
By Sabrina Wong
We’re pleased to welcome Mabelene back as Associate Director, Corporate Functions. With more than a decade of recruitment experience across Asia, Mabelene advises leadership teams at commodity trading houses, mining companies, NOCs, energy majors, banks, and investment funds. She focuses on senior appointments across Finance, Accounting, Audit, Tax, CFO leadership, and HR, helping build leadership…
Global Capital Rotation: From Office to Living, Logistics, and Digital Infrastructure
By Aurex Group Real Estate & Infrastructure
Global Capital Rotation: From Office to Living, Logistics, and Digital Infrastructure $270 billion flowed into data centres in 2025 alone, while office assets captured just 12% of institutional capital. Living and logistics sectors together took 45%. This is not tactical rebalancing. It is a structural rotation that will define real estate capital deployment through 2030….
Energy Trading Hiring Trends 2026: Why Platform Strength Is Gaining Attention
By Aurex Group Commodities
Energy trading hiring trends in 2026 are shifting. Senior professionals are no longer simply chasing the highest bonus. Increasingly, they are evaluating where they can build consistent, repeatable performance over time, with a clearer understanding of risk appetite, drawdown tolerance, netting risk, and how capital is actually deployed. The volatility cycle over the past 3-4…
Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Rise of Direct Real Estate Platforms
By Aurex Group Real Estate & Infrastructure
Sovereign wealth funds are moving beyond passive allocations. They are increasingly building or backing direct real estate platforms to gain greater control, flexibility, and access to strategically important assets. In a market shaped by tighter capital, geopolitics, energy transition, and infrastructure constraints, direct ownership is becoming less of a preference and more of a competitive…
Aurex Group sponsors our long-term partner Goodman for the Goodman Magic Mile Charity Run 2026
By Sabrina Wong
Aurex Group was proud to sponsor and actively participate in the Goodman Magic Mile Charity Run 2026, held on Sunday, 15 March at Goodman Interlink in Hong Kong. This iconic charity run, which has been going strong for over a decade, continues to make a meaningful impact by raising millions of dollars to transform lives….
Higher-for-Longer Interest Rates: How Capital Structure Is Reshaping Global Real Estate Hiring
By Aurex Group Real Estate
In 2026, elevated interest rates are no longer a temporary headwind—they’re the new baseline. With U.S. 10-year yields stabilizing around 4.5–5% and global growth holding steady at ~3.3% (per IMF projections), real estate platforms are recalibrating capital structures, deal pipelines, and—critically—talent strategies. This isn’t just about higher borrowing costs; it’s a structural pivot toward income…
Welcome to the team, Clara Lim!
By Sabrina Wong
Clara specialises in senior Corporate Functions leadership hires across Asia’s Natural Resources and commodity trading markets. She advises producers, trading houses, and infrastructure platforms on key appointments in Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Technology – with deep expertise in Market, Credit, and Operational Risk, plus Trading Compliance. Before joining Aurex Group, Clara delivered retained and…
AI, Talent and the Operating Model Shift in Real Estate
By Aurex Group Real Estate & Infrastructure
Artificial intelligence is not new to real estate. What is changing is how deeply it is embedding into operating models. Advanced analytics, yield modelling and portfolio optimisation have long been part of institutional real estate. REITs refine cap rate forecasts, developers model construction timelines and cash flows, and investment managers apply machine learning to multi-market…
Welcome to Aurex Group’s new Research Associate in Sydney – Angela Burrell!
By Sabrina Wong
With over 17 years of experience in Banking and Financial Services recruitment, Angela previously led an APAC regional recruitment team at a global bank. She covered Operations, Legal, Risk & Compliance, Finance, and Marketing & Communications across Corporate & Investment Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, and Corporate Functions. Having worked in both Hong Kong and…
Rare Earths, Critical Minerals, and Strategic Stockpiles
By Aurex Group Commodities
Talent Implications for Commodity Trading Firms Talent Implications for Commodity Trading Firms Rare earths and critical minerals spent decades sitting in a quiet corner of the commodity markets. Essential to modern manufacturing, yet rarely discussed outside specialist industrial circles. Today these materials sit at the intersection of energy policy, national security, and global industrial strategy….
Data Centres Are Becoming Energy Infrastructure
By Aurex Group Real Estate & Infrastructure
How Power Constraints Will Reshape Digital Infrastructure Platforms (2026–2030) 4 minute Read Data centres are no longer simply digital infrastructure. They are rapidly becoming energy infrastructure assets. Once viewed primarily through a real estate lens, large-scale facilities now rival major industrial sectors in electricity demand. The International Energy Agency estimates global data centre electricity consumption…
Organizational Capability & The AI Race
By Aurex Group Commodities
A Talent & Operating Model Perspective for Commodity Trading in 2026 *Obligatory disclaimer: Aurex Group is a commodities recruitment firm. Our perspective is shaped by ongoing conversations with global commodity trading executives and with AI professionals in adjacent talent pools across big tech, AI-native companies, quant hedge funds, systematic trading firms, investment banks, and advanced…
Celebrating 15 Years of Aurex Group
By Sabrina Wong
Fifteen years ago, our company was just an idea fuelled by passion, ambition, and a belief that recruitment could be done differently. We started small and fast forward to today, and we have grown into a trusted partner for hundreds of businesses and thousands of candidates across the globe! Our Success Is Built on People…
Aurex Group Appoints Elaine Chua as Head of Finance
By Sabrina Wong
Hong Kong, June 26, 2025 – Aurex Group, a leading global recruitment firm specialising in Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, is pleased to announce the appointment of Elaine Chua as Head of Finance based in Hong Kong. Elaine brings over a decade of international finance experience to Aurex Group, including nearly 10 years at KPMG…
The Data Centre Boom in Asia Pacific: Growth, Talent Gaps & Recruitment Strategies
By Jared Lowe
Asia Pacific is experiencing an unprecedented surge in data centre development, fuelled by rapid digital adoption, AI, and cloud computing. The region’s capacity already exceeds 10,500 MW and is projected to reach nearly 24,800 MW by 2028, growing at a 20% CAGR. But with rapid expansion comes a critical challenge: talent. Let’s break down the…
Aurex Group Promotes Sophie Rao to Director
By Sabrina Wong
Congratulations to Sophie Rao on her promotion to Director – Natural Resources at Aurex Group in Houston, Texas! Sophie, a key member of the Aurex Group team since 2018, has reached a significant milestone in her career as she takes on the role of Director within the North American Gas, Power, and Renewable Energy practice….
Aurex Group Rexmo’s Completes Movember 2024
By Jared Lowe
Aurex Group and AXG Contracting are uniting to help change the face of men’s health this #Movember! This year, our teams are getting behind Movember once again to support the only charity tackling men’s health issues on a global scale, year round. Independent of government funding, Movember finds and funds innovation research across #prostatecancer, #testicularcancer,…
Sami Jacobs attends Japan Power Week 2024
By Sabrina Wong
Aurex Group attended the prestigious Japan Power Week in Tokyo this month, represented by Sami Jacobs, Head of APAC Low-carbon Fuels! The event offered the opportunity to meet with many insightful experts, innovators and leaders in the energy industry, with a high-profile line-up of keynote speakers and panellists representing both the domestic energy industry and…
Lucas & Vinnie Attend All Energy Australia Conference
By Sabrina Wong
Aurex Group at the Southern Hemisphere’s Largest Clean Energy Event — All Energy Australia! Lucas Wilkinson, Director, and Vinnie Morris, Associate Director, joined the biggest gathering of renewable energy professionals in the region this month in Melbourne, Australia. All Energy Australia is not only a conference but a knowledge-sharing hub. The Aurex Group team had…
Aurex Group’s AXG Appoints Gemma Cornish as Director of Business Development in the Americas
By Sabrina Wong
AXG, Aurex Group’s contracting and workforce solutions company, has announced the appointment of Gemma Cornish as Director of Business Development in the Americas. With a career in international staffing optimization across global markets spanning almost 15 years, Gemma will guide AXG’s business development and organizational growth initiatives. “We are delighted to welcome Gemma to…
Celebrating 14 years of Aurex Group!
By Sabrina Wong
Congratulations to the entire team on reaching another milestone and anniversary.