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Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Although cautious about the broader global economy, Australian companies are confident about growth in 2025 and are pouring funds into decarbonisation - marking 2025 as an attractive entry point for green investors. The finding comes from a Capgemini ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... market valuations," Hennessy said. "Looking back to September and the lows in bond yields, investors were predicting a high risk of recession in the US, and markets were betting on official interest rates falling to 2.8% by early 2026. That number has ...

Australian Ethical grows FUM to $13.26bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical saw another quarter of positive net flows and investment performance, surpassing $13 billion during the quarter. Retail and wholesale net flows hit $173 million, while superannuation flows of $101 million were below recent quarters ...

Meta fact-checking move unsettles ethical investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... strong returns for investors over the years. In 2024, the stock surged 70%. Morningstar Sustainalytics rates Meta as high risk on ESG issues, including data privacy and cybersecurity, business ethics and product governance. While troubling, the research ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Partners, the alternative investment manager. Meanwhile, William Zhang has landed at Future Fund as the manager of portfolio risk. Zhang arrived from Future Group, where he was head of strategic research. He led the team responsible for providing strategic ...

Oaktree veteran jumps to Avari

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... career at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority before moving to Macquarie, where he was a senior analyst in the risk management group. Avari Capital was founded by Alan Liao in 2014. Having begun investing in small residential and industrial ...

GIC's investment chief to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... asset classes. He also led the development of medium- and long-term investment strategies and capabilities to optimise the risk-reward of the total portfolio across changing investment environments. Jaensubhakij arrived at Singapore's sovereign wealth ...

Legalsuper hunts for CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Legalsuper is looking for a new investment chief, following the resignation of Paul Murray who departed the industry fund just nine months into the job. Chief executive Luke Symons confirmed that Murray resigned from the fund on 20 December 2024 for ...

High ESG score? More likely to greenwash

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... by relying on past actions. The study also found that investors are willing to sacrifice returns to prevent greenwashing risk, especially in the long term. The ESG investment market is expected to cover 25% of the entire global investment by 2040 - a ...

Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
An alliance of financiers with over US$57.5 trillion in assets has bowed to US political pressure and hit pause after the exit of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock. Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), which has over 300 members, announced ...