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Green moves: HSBC, Social Ventures, UNLESS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
UNLESS Financial has appointed Francie Doolan (Garretto) to its newly formed advisory council, bringing heavyweight impact investing and systems-change credentials to the organisation. Doolan heads up Small Giants, a family office where she looks after ...

Improvements needed in modern slavery disclosures: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Monash University's Business School released the Modern Slavery Disclosure Quality Ratings ASX100 Companies Update 2025 report about how Australian companies are reporting on modern slavery in their supply chains. The annual assessment by Monash Centre ...

EPBC Act reforms offer clearer decarbonisation pathway: Fund manager

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) that passed last week will provide a clearer pathway towards decarbonisation for investors, according to Ellerston Capital. On November 28, both houses of Parliament ...

Principal rejoins Mercer team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Mercer has recruited a former employee as a principal and senior actuarial consultant. In her new role, Christine Lu will focus on life insurance consulting as well as on defined benefit and defined contribution superannuation. Lu has 14 years of experience ...

Green moves: Australian Retirement Trust, UNLESS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
An asset manager moves to superannuation, as UNLESS adds an investment heavyweight and a climate philanthropy names its co-chairs. Sustainability expert Tessa Volkmer is making the leap from asset management to superannuation, joining Australian Retirement ...

A slowdown in progress could double transition costs: ASFI

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Calling for coordinated action between government and industry bodies, the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) referenced analysis by the Network of central banks and supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), that indicated a ...

Hostplus snares LGT Wealth deputy CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
The deputy chief investment officer of LGT Wealth Management has joined the investments team at Hostplus, the $140 billion superannuation fund. Kevin Wan Lum has taken up the post of executive manager of investment research - a critical role given that ...

Impact investing reaches $157bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
New research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Centre for Social Impact and Impact Investing Australia found Australia's impact investing market has grown nearly eight-fold since 2020, with more than $157 billion invested in impact products. ...

Green moves: CEFC, Centre for Social Impact

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Belinda White has been appointed associate director of communications at the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. White joins Australia's specialist climate investor from Telix Pharmaceuticals, where she served as director of investor relations and ...

Global resilience is a key systemic risk: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey told the recent ASFA Conference 2025 that the super fund has been considering global resilience as a key thematic when making responsible investment decisions. "We see this as a systemic risk, the same as climate change ...