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DEI peak body firms up leadership

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) has elected leaders from UN Global Compact Network Australia, Telstra, and Schneider Electric, onto its board of directors. Sunita Gloster replaces Ming Long as chair, as she has moved to the the Commonwealth ...

Retirement heavyweight pitches climate fix

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Top retirement specialist Jeremy Cooper has taken up the decarbonisation challenge with an ESG strategic advisory position - and he has a proposal that will shake up the industry. Cooper joins multinational professional services firm MinterEllison's ...

Vision Super in hot water over coal investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Vision Super has found itself in hot water after analysis revealed it has purchased $2.2 million worth of Whitehaven Coal stocks after walking back its fossil fuel exclusion policy last year. The super fund changed its environmental, social and governance ...

States and feds step up on nature and resources

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... set a national '30 by 30' target to protect and conserve 30% of land and marine areas by 2030. It's part of Australia's updated Strategy for Nature under Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Environment Minister Tanya ...

Morningstar reveals top three undervalued stocks

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Dexus perform better than most in the long term. "More than half the portfolio is rated Premium by Property Council of Australia guidelines and most of the rest is A-grade," it said. "Dexus' portfolio has held up relatively well in major downturns ...

Climate Change Authority appoints new chair

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Akopiantz of Assembly Climate Capital. Akopiantz is a non-executive director at KPMG, a chair at Environmental Leadership Australia, alongside multiple other director and chair positions. Kean will chair the CCA following the departure of current chair ...

Women continue to lag in asset management

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... retention, investment teams will reach gender parity at the end of the decade. Progress is slow and poaching is rife in Australia's $4.3 trillion investment sector, with a four-point increase from 24% in 2017, according to Future IM/Pact. The diversity ...

QIC beefs up energy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... of electricity and energy solutions to Queensland, the National Electricity Market and large energy users throughout Australia. Before that, he served as the chief financial officer for Tarong Energy. The third recruit Mark Irwin also joins as a senior ...

Climate philanthropists lend muscle to green metal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... their funding on decarbonising heavy industry exports, a study found. A report titled High-Impact Climate Giving in Australia by Giving Green, found that investors and philanthropists could help reduce global emissions by up to 7% by concentrating their ...

Retail CSOs do a shuffle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... became general manager of quality, health and group sustainability, and then CSO in 2021. She has also exited Foodbank Australia as non-executive director. A Woolworths spokesperson said that as CSO, Holt "played a vital role in creating our sustainability ...