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Google's DEI dump may tank ESG score

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... supply chain controversies. Some of Australia's largest superannuation funds hold investments in Alphabet Inc. Australian Ethical, which has $13.26 billion in funds managed following an ethical criteria, has holdings in Alphabet. Chief of impact ...

Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... transportation. However, most of Australia is still lagging on sustainability - unless it impacts the bottom line. "Australian companies have a growing appreciation for the opportunity to cut costs, emissions and waste through sustainability initiatives," ...

Cbus hunts for new ESG head

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... UniSuper's strategy and approach to ESG, where she was for 11 years. Williams has held leadership roles at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and the Responsible Investment Association ...

Cbus divests renewable asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... - the infrastructure strategy of global private markets manager CVC - have agreed to the sale of 1 GW portfolio of Australian renewable energy assets to Potentia Energy for an unknown sum. The geographically and technologically diverse portfolio includes ...

Insignia exec appointed local chief of MUFG Retirement Solutions

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... at Insignia Financial. Lombardo said: "I am excited to join the MUFG Retirement Solutions business and to lead the Australian and New Zealand team during such an important time. I believe there is much more potential to be achieved in this market, and ...

VanEck beefs up Sydney office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
VanEck has bolstered its Australian team with new investment, capital markets and client coverage specialists as it gears up for a record year in exchange-traded funds. Anna Wu has been appointed senior associate specialising in multi-asset investment ...

Partners Group staffer quits to join NYC firm

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... important market where it has had a deep and long-established history of providing sophisticated investment solutions to Australian investors. Siguler Guff's core investment strategies include opportunistic and private credit, small business private ...

Frontier hires new real assets lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... strong interest from local asset owners around investing in real assets." Frontier has been at the forefront of advising Australian institutional investors on infrastructure and other unlisted assets as far back as the 1990s. Real assets have been a ...

ETF fund flows hit US$16bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... they failed to achieve sufficient scale. However, Betashares had recently launched two new sustainable ETFs - Ethical Australian Composite Bond ETF and New Zealand Sustainability Leaders ETF - during the fourth quarter of 2024. Three more new Australasian ...

Investors slam dumping of nature positive laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Labor's 'Nature Positive' plan has been shelved after pushback from West Australian Premier Roger Cook and the mining industry. Labor will now not try to negotiate the passage of the bill to create a new federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA). ...