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"Critical decade" for energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... investment for utility-scale generation, storage, and transmission. Bowen argued nuclear would lead to higher energy bills and policy uncertainty, and there would be significant economic and practical challenges with integrating nuclear power into the ...

Funds SA, Mercer Super make key appointments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... the fund for South Australian government employees, bringing a tremendous depth of experience in financial and economic policy to the Funds SA board, having spent 25 years at the Reserve Bank of Australia. His current roles include co-chair of the Australian ...

NAB funds DEI workplace research

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... improvements required to create workplaces free of racism, discrimination and bias. Nareen Young, professor of Indigenous policy at Jumbunna and dean of the UTS Business School, said the 2020 report needed an update. "With this research we want to build ...

Retirement heavyweight pitches climate fix

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... non-executive director position at Bennelong Funds Management. He has been a committee member at SMSF Association's public policy committee for the past six years. "I'm very interested in sustainable finance - helping transform businesses to ...

ESG funds are cheaper: Morningstar

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... opinions, two out of three (67%) respondents globally said that they believe ESG has become more material to investment policy in the past five years. The investment research and ratings firm recently revealed their top picks for undervalued stocks - ...

Vision Super in hot water over coal investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... analysis revealed it has purchased $2.2 million worth of Whitehaven Coal stocks after walking back its fossil fuel exclusion policy last year. The super fund changed its environmental, social and governance policy, removing its revenue-based coal, oil ...

Demand for human rights solutions intensifies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Multinational Enterprises, and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. It will be interoperable with the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Sustainable Finance Roadmap to turbocharge investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... "will further Australia's ability to attract international capital for the transition". Erwin Jackson, managing director, policy, at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) said the roadmap "provides a foundation for appropriate sustainability information ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... disproportionately hit, reinforcing the systemic issues that hold women back in the workplace," LinkedIn vice president global public policy and economic graph Sue Duke said. "We are reaching a pivotal moment as generative AI starts to impact the labour ...

What's keeping the Treasurer up at night?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... chief investment officer Rob Hogg said the easing of underlying inflation pressures is "extremely positive" from a monetary policy perspective. He said it's an easing in inflation that will enable the US Federal Reserve to cut rates. Energy transformation ...