Hancock Prospecting Shifts $133M Into Defence Giants, Boosts Gold Holdings

Hancock Prospecting's US equities portfolio, worth about $3.3 billion, moved in a clear direction this year: toward defence.

The positions

A filing dated 15 May disclosed a $133 million shift made in March, adding CrowdStrike, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and RTX, alongside increased gold exposure.

Those are not speculative names. They are the primary contractors of the United States defence establishment, plus a cybersecurity firm embedded in the same procurement environment.

What the allocation implies

Defence primes and gold are both positions that perform in conditions of elevated geopolitical risk. Buying them together is a coherent view rather than two unrelated trades, and it aligns with the group's parallel push into critical minerals, which are themselves a strategic-supply story.

Read alongside the minerals strategy

The same group has been taking minority stakes in Western rare earths and lithium producers. Defence, gold and critical minerals form a single thesis about supply security and strategic competition rather than three separate bets.

Why it matters here

Queensland has a growing defence industry and an established critical minerals sector. Where Australia's largest private resources group places its capital is a reasonable signal for firms operating in either.

Sources: Mining.com; Investing News Network; Hancock Prospecting.

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