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Investors "not interested" in nuclear

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... "Australia's energy prices have surged since 2022 because of fossil fuel hyperinflation. Renewables are the solution." Just 5% of people living in renewable energy zones would embrace living near nuclear power stations, according to RE-Alliance ...

VFMC welcomes two key execs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has made two new senior appointments - a chief people officer and a head of client services. The $92 billion quasi-sovereign wealth fund has named Karen Perkins the permanent head of client services. Perkins was ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... the rate of mental health condition claims among 30- to 40-year-olds was pronounced enough to lower the average age of people permanently disabled due to mental health by three years. The data showed the average age of Australians "leaving the workforce ...

Investors zero in on nature, human rights nexus

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Nations Peoples," Julia Leske, ISS ESG managing director and senior consultant ESG strategy said. Around the world three people are killed each week defending and protecting the environment, around half of which are Indigenous, according to Global Witness ...

Green moves: Westpac, Care Super, BlackRock, Quinbrook, Ortec, CAA

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... with Spirit Super in November, which created a A$53 billion (AUM) fund serving 573,000 members. D'Emden was a senior people and culture advisor with Spirit Super prior to the funds merging and previously worked for Tasplan Super and EnergyAustralia. ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
BlackRock dismisses allegations it increased spending in agribusiness and ignored known harm in its active and index funds. The complaint follows legal precedent that financial institutions are responsible for acting on human rights and environmental ...

Climate adaptation presents $100bn opp: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... we avoided the worst-case scenario'," said Sellick. "That event was estimated to cost over $50 billion. There was 30 people killed. It took over a week for over 3 million people to be reconnected to their electricity systems. "I'd hate to see ...

Australia among the leaders in lowering carbon emissions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... required. The $4 trillion in super has the power to accelerate the transition to net zero and well-position our economy, and people, to become a leader in this space" said Alison George, head of impact & ethics at Australian Ethical. On land use, George ...

Green Moves: NorthStar Impact, Aboriginal Investment NT, Care Super

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... of $680 million, Aboriginal Investment NT makes grants and investments and provides financial assistance to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory as a Corporate Commonwealth Entity under the Land Rights Act. It's newly launched strategic investment ...

Cbus board still considering CFMEU directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... partnerships program the fund operates and more. "What I will say is that there is a huge benefit for us to reach out to people in the construction industry around the issues that are relevant in terms of our differentiated product, particularly so given ...