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NorthStar Impact analyst joins TCorp

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... stewardship team on climate risk. Joining from NorthStar Impact, Sophia Carson Edwards has seven years' experience in the investment management industry. Before NorthStar, she was a sustainability analyst at UK-based Polar Capital, a multi-boutique ...

Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... enthusiasm, but I have to say that I can't remember being this excited. I get to work alongside some of the best investment brains in the country who have had proven and sustained success, who share my values, and have this amazing vision of deploying ...

Shareholders to say 'no' to gambling ads

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Ethical investment groups Ethinvest and Future Group are backing an investor campaign to stop media giants Seven West and Nine Entertainment from running gambling ads. Ethinvest, a financial planning group, and Future Group, the parent company of super ...

Woodside's US$2.35bn gamble raises doubts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... an industrial feedstock. Starting in 2025, it will use natural gas, transitioning to 95% carbon capture by 2026. The investment exceeds Woodside's capital allocation target of 10% internal rate of return for new energy projects. Analyst Tim Buckley ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... The $70 billion workplace pension fund has enlisted Campbell Global, J.P. Morgan Asset Management's timberland investment advisory company, to develop a portfolio of direct investments focused on traditional timberland. Australia is one of the markets ...

Northern Trust firms up stewardship, proxy voting offering

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Management, who will chair the proxy voting committee amid a rollout of a new proxy voting solution. Paul Clark is an investment management expert with over 35 years of industry experience, 30 of which were spent at UBS where he held roles in stewardship ...

Super fund moves: Aware Super, AustralianSuper, Mine Super and Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Aware Super has recruited a senior analyst to join the $180 billion super fund's responsible investment team. Reporting to the stewardship manager Louise Bradshaw, Satoko Asai will contribute to developing and implementing Aware Super's stewardship ...

Australian Ethical scores gold, others fall off charts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Ramrakha says. The "danger" with league tables is that it's easy to forget that superannuation is a multi-year investment. Renewables are a "longer-term strategy, and it's been a poor year," Ramrakha says. "You're still getting double-digit ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... greenwashing investigation. Mercer was found to make misleading statements on its website about seven Sustainable Plus investment options offered in the Mercer Super Trust, of which Mercer is the trustee. The options promised to exclude companies involved ...

Podcast: Can the market solve climate change? Climate finance with Blair Palese

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The US Inflation Reduction Act will crowd in more than $3 trillion US dollars of investment over the next decade. The Future Made in Australia Act has been billed as Australia's response to the US IRA - but are taxpayer dollars better spent elsewhere? ...