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Activist investors set sights on paid parental leave

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The activist shareholder group Sustainable Investment Exchange (SIX) has set its scope on large, listed firms that fail to provide paid parental leave. They are targeting childcare provider G8 Education, which employs over 10,000 staff. G8 is an outlier ...

Canadian pension fund names new CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Gelderen's departure last October. The incoming chief investment officer has been with the fund for 18 years, including six years as a founding senior member of its London office. Charbonneau played a key role in building PPS's infrastructure ...

Green bank returns $5.4bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Australia's government-owned green bank received $3.5 billion in the six months to December 2024 - just over one transaction per week, bringing total transaction value to $71.5 billion. In its latest bi-annual update, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation ...

Green moves: UN PRI, Ditchley, Honest Work

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... interim chief financial officer for the Ditchley Foundation. Emmet McNamee, head of progression and innovation, exited after six years to focus on his own corporate transparency non-profit, Honest Work. Research head Katherine Ng also left, as did APAC ...

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

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... with peers in academia at the University of Technology Sydney and in corporate change management at Earth2Mars. Before her six months at the S&P, the sustainability solutions specialist landed at MLC Life Insurance as a sustainability manager. However ...

Team Super names retirement chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Forman previously served as Aware Super's group executive of advice for five years leaving the $170 billion super fund six months ago after a management overhaul. She joined from BT, where she most recently served as national head of advice. Current ...

Hostplus names deputy CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... the South Australian state-owned corporation next month, replacing Matt Kempton who has led the investment team for the last six months as acting chief investment officer.

Green aluminium gets $2bn boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Canberra's $2 billion green aluminium investment will help fast-track the $5.1 billion industry to become a green export powerhouse. The Green Aluminium Production Credit incentivises aluminium smelters to transition to renewable energy by 2036. Aluminium ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... portfolio analyst with QIC's state investments team. Gill joined the Queensland Government's $68 billion investment arm six years ago working initially with the global multi-asset team followed by the state investments team. Before the promotion ...

Vantage Point AM hires from Merricks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... take up a similar role with Vantage, where he joined as operating chief and was a managing partner for most of his almost six years. Back in 2017, Thomas founded Vantage Point with chief investment officer Nick Ferres. Chief executive Colin Mullins welcomed ...