Green moves: Aware Super, Minderoo Foundation

After four years at Aware Super, ESG manager Louise Bradshaw has switched superannuation funds. She has joined CareSuper where she will serve as a responsible investment manager within the investment team.

"I am excited to join Claire Molinari and the RI team working within the investment team led by investment chief Suzanne Branton to help build and enhance the fund's ESG capability as part of its broader investment approach," Bradshaw stated on LinkedIn.

The ESG specialist moved to Aware Super from the Australian Catholic Super and Retirement Fund (ACRF) as a senior analyst but was most recently manager of responsible investment - a title she now holds at CareSuper.

At ACRF, she ran the fund's socially responsible investment options and ESG initiatives.

Bradshaw spent more than six years in institutional business at Eaton Vance Australia.

Earlier in her career she was head of client and consultant relations for T. Rowe Price in Australia and New Zealand, transferring to Australia from the firm's London office.

While in London, she did short stints at First Sentier Investment and AllianceBernstein on the client services side of the funds management business.

Bradshaw is a former member of a PRI advisory committee tasked with designing a stewardship initiative for nature.

Last November, CareSuper merged with Spirit Super to create a super fund worth $53 billion.

Meantime, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has appointed Kristen Stevenson executive director of effective philanthropy.

The Australian charity, established by the Fortescue Metals Group founder, has long put ESG at the forefront of its strategy, which is to drive meaningful change, challenge inequality and pave the way for longer-term sustainability.

In her new role, Stevenson will largely focus on the five-year plan to uplift communities, support gender equality, protect natural ecosystems and respond to emerging threats and challenges.

Her career spans financial and professional services before transitioning into the philanthropic sector in 2019. Six years ago, Minderoo brought her across from Tatterang, the Forrest family office, to head up business transformation.

Before her current role at the charity, Stevenson headed up business partnerships working alongside Minderoo's leaders to shape and grow global portfolios and networks collaborating with not-for-profit, businesses and government agencies.

Much earlier in her career, Stevenson was a management consultant at Deloitte, focusing on transformational change, talent management, project management and stakeholder engagement.

Prior to her consulting career, she worked as an HR professional partnering with leaders to develop strategies to manage talent, adapt to market changes and guide the workforce through cultural shifts.

Minderoo congratulated Stevenson on a "well-deserved" next chapter.

"Excited to see what you'll achieve in this new role and the difference you'll continue to make by building and sustaining partnerships that align with Minderoo Foundation's values and drive impact," the charity said.

"Philanthropy has an opportunity to transform itself to meet the needs of this moment. This means moving beyond risk aversion and toward bold, trust-based partnerships," Stevenson added.

"It means resourcing long-term work led by those closest to the issues - not just projects with tidy outcomes. It means aligning our investments, governance, and grantmaking with our values.

"Philanthropy has unique advantages: flexibility, independence, and capital. But these mean little if not used to shift the conditions holding disadvantage in place. The question is no longer whether we can afford to be bold - it's whether we can afford not to be."