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Green moves: Warakirri, La Trobe Financial, Future Generation, Tracker Group, GRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... McDonald is the chair of Beef Australia and a non-executive director of Regal Asian Investments Limited. "Adelaide's business acumen and her experience of listed investment companies will be an asset to our board, as we continue to navigate changing ...

Young investors' appetite for ESG investing dwindles: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... from 72% to 66% in just one year. This trend also played out in recent findings from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A group of researchers surveyed retail investors annually for three years, finding in the first year - 2022 - that Millennial ...

No charge for carbon target failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... accountability of emissions targets ending in 2030 and 2050." The paper's authors were Xiaoyan Jiang from NYU Stern School of Business, Shawn Kim from UC Berkeley, and Shirley Lu from Harvard University. Measuring the implications of failure and whether ...

NAB backs green bank for Aussie farmers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... potential right across our economy," said CEFC executive director, debt markets Richard Lovell. "This includes exciting new business opportunities for a diverse range of manufacturers and industry, from those involved in the clean energy supply chain ...

Looming climate audits expose talent crunch

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Approved this week, Australia's new sustainability audit timelines have sparked concerns around the readiness of businesses scrambling to fill a skills shortfall. Thousands of progressively smaller entities will gradually fall under the mandatory disclosure ...

ESG pay skyrockets - but gap widens

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... 40% last year. Among the biggest obstacles to meeting ESG KPIs, respondents identified three main hurdles: competing business priorities, under-resourcing, and poor-quality data. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a recent study found a silent crisis among green ...

Orbis recruits investment specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... channel and fund suite in Australia. Du Preez joins Orbis from sister company, Allan Gray Australia, where he served as a business development manager working with financial advisers and wealth management professionals in Victoria, Tasmania, and South ...

Workplace expert joins Aware Super in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Aware Super has appointed Breckon Jones to the newly created role of head of growth, talent, and reward. Jones joins the $190 billion superannuation fund from iCare NSW, which manages the insurance and care services to the people, businesses and communities ...

Realm House hires from Plato

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... will be joining us. His experience, thoughtfulness and collegiality are very obvious strengths," Liow said. "Realm's business has grown strongly, and we are expanding our frontiers further in the private debt markets. We are adding to our risk oversight ...

BlackRock's Chantal Giles expands role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... US$11.5 trillion asset management firm. Effective February 1, 2025, Giles will also head up APAC strategic clients and business development. In her expanded role, she will lead key commercial initiatives with the most strategic clients, focusing especially ...