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HESTA progresses gender diversity targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA is doubling down on its commitment to working with more gender diverse investment teams, saying that as of this year it no longer works with any all-male external managers. Releasing its biannual Gender Diversity in Investment Management 2024 ...

Australia ranks 13th on gender parity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025 shows Australia's gender parity has improved markedly in the past 12 months. Australia has jumped 11 places to rank 13 th globally for gender parity, with the gap now 79.2% closed. In Asia Pacific ...

Nuveen eyes green loans in local RE strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... investment processes and ESG factor analysis, including waste reduction and energy consumption, climate risk analysis and social aspects. The firm will also target to structure green loans and sustainable linked loans where applicable to meet ESG targets ...

BFA Global heads offshore

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia into a platform that partners with some of the world's most sophisticated private market investors," he shared on social media. "As we step into the next chapter, our presence in Singapore positions us to lead - not follow - as Asia-Pacific ...

Green moves: Australian Ethical, Optus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... investment and corporate responsibility, having previously worked across the NGO sector before establishing Optus' corporate social responsibility team. At the Singtel-owned telecommunications giant, she leads the sustainability team's strategy ...

Mind the reporting gap: ASX companies urged to improve

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
Research from UNSW finds that while 97% of ASX100 companies report on social topics, most disclosures are inconsistent in quality and difficult to compare due to a lack of standardisation. ASX100 companies are being urged to go beyond simple box-ticking ...

Australia's $800bn food industry has highest hidden costs per capita

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... responsibility to pursue these goals vigorously. This national stocktake provides an evidence base to guide our actions as social, cultural, environmental, and economic priorities shift. "While Australia's wider food system is an economic and production ...

Carbon tariffs on some imports urgently needed: Climate Energy Finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... pathway. Further, it calls for a regulated, progressively rising price on carbon in international trade in Asia to reflect the social cost of the carbon emissions embedded in the production of emissions-intensive industrial commodities, and to effectively ...

Green moves: Eaton Capital Partners, UBS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... has taken on a new role, while Eaton Capital Partners has a new impact investment analyst. Zarmeen Pavri, a specialist in social impact strategies and investment, has joined the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW Business School as an adjunct fellow. With ...

Sustainable bonds hit $US7bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds Initiative's latest Global State of the Market Report shows. The Climate Bonds Initiative examined green, social, and sustainability (GSS) and sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) in its yearly analysis, finding that the sector reached ...