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Veteran ESG lead rejoins abrdn

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... manager responsible for Australasia. As the local head of PRI, Veerappan managed signatory relations for Australia and New Zealand. The role involved working with signatories to elevate sustainability and ESG issues in their investment processes and ...

Funds SA and Apostle jump on activist group rebound

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... announced two new appointments to its global steering committee. Rest's Leilani Weier is representing Australia and New Zealand investors; Daisy Streatfeild represents Europe. The pair replace outgoing Stephanie Maier and Andrew Gray. Streatfeild ...

New alliance brings green data to financial markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... years developing this product, collaborating with Queensland's Griffith University and the University of Otago, New Zealand. Co-founder Ben McNeil has more than two decades of experience as a climate scientist and believes in the power of data to ...

Aussie asset managers rise to RI challenge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... runners-up. The RIAA Responsible Investment Scorecard assesses the actions of asset managers in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand during the 2023 calendar year. In Australia, more standouts included First Sentier Investors, Australian Ethical Investment ...

Green jobs: Societe Generale, Iress, U Ethical, CDP, TISFD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... markets experience and lead a team that "convenes, educates, and mobilises" a global network of investors. Meanwhile in New Zealand, board advisory Quarry Group founder Peter Crow, and Lithuania-based Silver Ventures founder Jurate Stanisauskiene, have ...

Australian Ethical profit up 57% to $18.5m

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... The firm also bought Christian Super SFT in 2022. Vasili Kolesnikoff, head of research at ISS STOXX Australia and New Zealand, commented on the results: "The market seemed to take some positives out of this with the share price bouncing up just over ...

Red alert for PFAS value chain

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... manufacture of key types of PFAS including PFIS, PFOA, and PFHxS. Europe is moving to restrict around 10,000 types of PFAS. New Zealand and Canadian regulators are also looking into a ban, and how to manage contamination. Lawsuits related to PFAS contamination ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Australia is one of the markets Nest has directed Campbell Global to investigate. It will also seek out opportunities in New Zealand, Chile, and the United States. It comes as Nest aims to increase its allocations to private assets in the coming years ...

NZ investors to buoy positive impact funds, fears greenwashing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Positive impact fund managers should direct their efforts towards the New Zealand market after an investor survey last month found three in four New Zealanders want to invest in positive impact strategies. The annual survey, Voices of Aotearoa: Demand ...

Podcast: Moving business towards a low carbon economy with Jon Dee

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... DoSomething, and National Recycling Week. He is also the chair of the Forest Stewardship Council of Australia and New Zealand. Host Rose Mary Petrass, Senior Journalist at FS Sustainability, sits down with Jon to find out how to motivate business to ...