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CEFC gives $160m to sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is partnering with Goldman Sachs Alternatives to pour $160 million into sustainable real estate. The investment is being made alongside the Goldman-managed Real Estate Credit Partners (RECP IV) fund and will ...

Major instos, family offices headline Impact Investment Summit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... smaller base, within responsible investment, and financial services companies are recognising that," Series told Financial Standard. Macquarie Group global strategist Viktor Shvets, a keynote speaker on day one, recently wrote the book The Twilight Before ...

Net zero, energy transition key election items: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... can be achieved." Quick wins would involve staying the course on the Safeguard Mechanism and the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, and winding back fuel tax credits. "... winding back fuel tax credits could reduce the structural budget deficit by about ...

Glass Lewis acquires investment stewardship platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Global corporate governance data provider Glass Lewis has acquired a Stockholm-based technology platform to enhance institutional-level investment stewardship data and workflows. Purchasing Esgaia will accelerate Glass Lewis' strategy to more holistically ...

Advertisers to adhere to new Environmental Claims Code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... clear and transparent in communicating actions underpinning claims. "The new Environmental Claims Code sets a higher standard for advertisers, covering not just traditional marketing content but also images, sounds, and broad or vague environmental claims," ...

Board directors targeted by APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The boards of superannuation trustees, insurers, and banks are on notice, with APRA proposing changes to "strengthen and streamline" governance requirements. The regulator has released eight proposals in what marks the first "significant update" of ...

Ares builds up wealth team with Fidante poach

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... "thrilled' to welcome him to the team. "We are committed to establishing a platform that serves our clients with the highest standard of investment capabilities and delivers innovative solutions to Australian private wealth investors, and we are ...

Quinbrook, CATL to build battery storage solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Wales, Queensland, and Northern Territory. The battery is expected to have an eight-hour duration, which is double the standard battery energy storage system's (BESS) four hours. "This is a result of a two year-technical collaboration with CATL ...

Are founder-led companies a risk? With Lawrence Lam

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Today we are going to talk about founder-led companies, which can provide high returns for investors - but can also be high risk. From Uber's aggressive expansion tactics under Travis Kalanick, Theranos' fraudulent blood testing under Elizabeth ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Re-Vi Group has a new chief executive, while VFMC loses a sustainability specialist and Aware Super hires an AI expert. Australian climate tech and biochar company Re-Vi Group has appointed Radha Kuppalli as chief executive. Kuppalli joins from New ...