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Energy market not fit for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... dates is causing delays in the renewable energy and storage investments required to replace retiring coal generation, research conducted by Castalia Advisory Group found. "Investors need clear, effective and predictable signals to drive the investment ...

No charge for carbon target failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... mysteriously vanish, there is limited reaction and no accountability. ESG ratings often ignore missed climate targets, the research published in Nature Climate Change found. Nearly 10% of the 1041 firms that set 2020 emissions targets failed to achieve ...

VFMC wraps up leadership changes

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... assistant portfolio manager. Before that, he was a consultant and a member of the fixed interest and portfolio construction research team at JANA Investment Advisers. Before joining JANA in 2010, he worked as an assistant portfolio manager at Vanguard ...

Orbis recruits investment specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... specialist to work with its local client team. Based in Melbourne, Werner du Preez will oversee Orbis' relationships with research houses and support the firm's focus on the retail channel and fund suite in Australia. Du Preez joins Orbis from ...

Workplace expert joins Aware Super in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... held senior roles at AusNet Services, and Energy Networks. The board subcommittee assists the investment committee with research, due diligence and selection of direct assets for the fund, and monitors the performance of these assets post-acquisition ...

Green moves: UN PRI, Ditchley, Honest Work

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... standards-setting at the International Organization for Standardization, Standards Australia. She is also interested in research ethics, having been involved in this at Sydney Children's Hospitals Network as well as research firm Centuria Consulting. ...

Green moves: S&P, Northern Trust, Magellan, Maple-Brown Abbott

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
The high-profile Désirée Lucchese has farewelled the global ratings and research group S&P following a restructuring of its energy transition, sustainability and services teams. Lucchese now seeks a senior position in investment management or a company ...

Climate funds see first year of outflows

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Morningstar's data on European asset flows was accompanied by updated data on the US sustainable funds landscape. The research house found US sustainable open-end funds and ETFs saw the second year of outflows in over a decade, losing US$19.6 billion ...

Trump Paris exit "bad news" for rest of world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... 100 have set gender diversity targets, and over 80% of the ASX 100 report metrics on diversity metrics beyond gender. Research shows a diverse workforce impacts positively on organisational culture, drives more diverse perspectives and is ultimately ...

Chief executive misbehaviour stifles investment returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... corporate behaviour and culture have "consistently underperformed their peers both in Australia and globally," the firm's research indicated. Notably, companies that scored poorly in Acadian's management behaviour factor signals at the start ...