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UniSuper helps raise $30m for PlasmaLeap Technologies

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
... for this technology to scale competitively and reduce the climate impact of farming," Yara Growth Ventures investment director Stian Nygaard said. Uniseed appointed Alastair Hick as chief executive in January, succeeding Peter Devine who will leave the ...

Vanguard settles Texas-led coal antitrust lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
Vanguard will pay more than $40 million to settle a lawsuit brought by 13 Republican states that claimed it, along with BlackRock and State Street, sought to damage the US coal industry through climate activism. The case was brought in late 2024 by ...

Green moves: Airtree Ventures, Westpac

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
... years at KPMG, where she led human rights and social impact work for financial services clients. Minahan is a former director on the ESG Advisory Committee of the Australian Investment Council, where her focus was on human rights and social impact. Speaking ...

Australian boards not prepared for geopolitical conflict, climate change: BDO

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
An expert says Australian boards must act now to prepare for the imminent threats posed by geopolitical conflicts to avoid commercial and compliance risks. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2026, geoeconomic confrontation ...

Top fund managers win $31.2bn Swedish pension fund mandate

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... quality-controlled range that is aligned with current market demand. We are very pleased with this," Swedish FTN executive director Erik Fransson said. Over 900,000 pension savers have holdings in the funds affected by the procurement.

Schroders nabs Oaktree exec to lead Asia sales

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... product solutions, while Richard Young, the former UK head of institutional capital raising, has joined ICG as managing director of its client solutions group. Brookfield Asset Manager is acquiring the remaining 26% stake of Oaktree that it does not ...

Realm opens London office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... has an extensive background in origination, structuring, trading and syndication. He joins from Natixis, where he was a director responsible for syndication and investor distribution. He previously worked as a CLO trader at Mediobanca and as a structuring ...

Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... performance across diversified property portfolios," Precinct said. Elsewhere, Shikha Gupta, Future Fund's executive director of alternatives, has been elected trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), the industry body promoting ...

Governance issues on the rise: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
In the six months from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025, the corporate watchdog received 9686 reports of misconduct (ROMs), raising 13,036 issues, new data from ASIC shows. ASIC said the increase in ROMs was driven largely by corporate governance concerns ...

Green moves: Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... double bottom line of strong financial returns and measurable impact," she said. UBS Asset Management's sustainability director Allee Zhang has joined Australian Retirement Trust to lead the fund's climate strategy. Zhang - who will also ART's ...