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Platinum staffers join Merlon Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Merlon Capital Partners has hired two investment specialists from Platinum Asset Management and invited former AMP chief Andrew Mohl to join a new advisory board. Julian McCormack and Kirit Hira have joined the investment team as portfolio managers. ...

ART appoints chief commercial officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Australian Retirement Trust has confirmed the appointment of Stephen McKay as its chief commercial officer. McKay was appointed in an interim capacity last July when the $300 billion super fund overhauled its senior management team. He replaced long-tenured ...

Colonial First State loses private markets manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Colonial First State has confirmed the departure of the senior manager responsible for unlisted investments within the fund's multi-asset team. The financial services giant said Daniel Cheang's last day with the firm was February 14. Cheang's ...

Economists brace for an uncertain future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
After decades of unprecedented progress in reducing global inequality and poverty, the future looks increasingly uncertain, according to Angela Jackson, lead economist at Impact Economics and Policy. With Australia heading into an election year, potential ...

Investors still drawn to DEI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Goldman Sachs are the latest to de-emphasise diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies due to new US government directives. The US political climate is driving pushback against ESG, with corporates ...

SBTi seeks feedback on Corporate Net Zero Standard

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is revising its Corporate Net Zero Standard's approach to target-setting and disclosure, value chain emissions, and carbon removal. The voluntary organisation aims to promote best practice whilst ensuring ...

Consultancies jump on skills gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Safety company UL Solutions and OpenEngagement, a stakeholder engagement and governance advisory firm, are partnering to help firms prepare mandatory climate reports as consultancies experience growing demand amid a talent shortfall. UL Solutions will ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
With the Earth breaching 1.5°C, HESTA and Alphinity Investment Management are tightening their net zero portfolio alignment methodologies, sector transition pathways, and adaptation to climate change to reduce physical risk. HESTA and Alphinity - both ...

Green moves: HSBC, ACSI, Minderoo, The Superpower Institute, QLD Office of Social Impact, Terrain NRM

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
HSBC has hired a global banking executive for the permanent role of chief sustainability officer. Julian Wentzel was hired after a month as interim chief sustainability officer, following the departure of Celine Herweijer. Herweijer led all aspects ...

Institutional sales exec exits Ares Management

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
James Fleiter, a member of the institutional sales team at Ares Management Australia, has departed the company Fleiter was a relationship manager in the global client solutions group, where he focused on institutional client management for Australia ...