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Aussie executive tapped for top Kiwi job

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... manager that runs about $8 billion on behalf of community trusts, charities, KiwiSaver schemes, corporate pension schemes and high-net-worth individuals. Before taking on the new role, Stanford spent five years with global multi-strategy quantitative ...

Green moves: HSBC, Social Ventures, UNLESS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
UNLESS Financial has appointed Francie Doolan (Garretto) to its newly formed advisory council, bringing heavyweight impact investing and systems-change credentials to the organisation. Doolan heads up Small Giants, a family office where she looks after ...

Big banks neglect carbon emitted by financed deforestation: ACF

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
A new analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) found the big four banks are "underreporting" the carbon emissions resulting from the deforestation they finance. According to ACF's Financed emissions from deforestation: The Big Four's ...

Australia misses out on China's cleantech boom: CEF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Australia is being overlooked by China's US$180 billon cleantech boom, according to Climate Energy Finance (CEF), warning this is putting the country's net zero and decarbonisation goals at risk. Since 2018, China's outward direct investment in Australia ...

Technology transforming biodiversity risk assessments

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Biodiversity impact assessment is emerging as a crucial framework among firms that strive to mitigate environmental impacts and provide comprehensive climate reporting data. Asset manager Franklin Templeton partnered with Melbourne University's ...

Quinbrook strengthens partnership with Stanwell

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... energy hub is designed to support network reliability and critical power system services, supplying dispatchable power during high market demand and unplanned outages, Quinbrook said. The combination of flexible and responsive gas turbines, long duration ...

TelstraSuper exec joins CFA Society board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... Society Australia serves over 3,500 investment professionals and more than 5,000 CFA Program candidates. The Society promotes high standards of ethics, education and professional excellence in Australia's investment profession. Volunteer directors ...

'Gentle density' can solve housing crisis: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... where to build new housing to improve affordability too often focuses on the extreme ends of the housing supply spectrum - high-density inner-city developments or new "masterplanned" communities in sprawling outer suburban or regional areas," CEDA said. ...

CEFC invests $35m in Starling Energy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is investing $35 million through the CEFC Household Energy Upgrades Fund (HEUF) in Starling Energy Group, which operates via its retail brand Plico. CEFC said the investment will help reduce household energy ...

EPBC Act reforms offer clearer decarbonisation pathway: Fund manager

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... penalties for significant breaches of environmental law, including removing and sunsetting the exemption from the EPBC Act for high-risk land clearing and regional forest agreements. The measures will also ensure better and more sustainable regional ...