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Iress fills APAC wealth role from within

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
Iress, the financial advice software provider, has promoted from within to fill the top role in its Asia Pacific wealth business, following the departure of a long-serving executive. Sam Wall has stepped into the role of acting chief executive, succeeding ...

Macquarie invests to support women-led enterprises in APAC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
Macquarie Group Foundation has invested $1 million in Good Return's Impact Investment Fund II to accelerate its fundraising efforts for underserved women-led enterprises across the Asia Pacific region. The evergreen fund is designed to unlock an estimated ...

Shareholder pushback on exec pay eases: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... concerns and often pursuing those issues with companies on multiple fronts," Georgeson head of governance and ESG advisory APAC Paul Murphy said. "Sometimes this is taking place outside the confines of the AGM, for example, through investor collaborations ...

Top JBWere wealth leader heads to UBS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... at UBS until Bird's return. Bird's new role will see him report to Jin Yee Young, co-head global wealth management APAC, and locally to Nick Hughes and Greg Peirce, co-country heads of Australasia. The departure comes shortly after former Cbus ...

Australia needs to ramp up decarbonisation efforts: BloombergNEF

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... identified Australia as one of the largest global exporters of seaborne thermal coal and liquified natural gas (LNG) in the APAC region. It also stated that the volume of Australian coal rose while the volume of LNG exports fell in the second half of ...

Former Perpetual executive takes helm at UBS AM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... Management to leverage its global investment capabilities for local clients. "Australia continues to be an important market in the APAC region, particularly in this period of growth and change for superannuation and other institutional and wholesale ...

Sustainable investing trends for 2026: Morningstar Sustainalytics

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... regulatory and voluntary company disclosure increases and converges. This focus on is particularly evident in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, the report identified. "[Climate] transition-focused frameworks and taxonomies have been introduced to accelerate ...

Prioritising governance achieves better shareholder returns: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... advantages are essential to sustained TSR. Commenting, BCG corporate finance and strategy practice leader Kanchan Samtani said APAC companies are transforming the way they behave. "Growth has long been the headline across Asia Pacific, but the region ...

Morningstar Sustainalytics names climate, nature solutions lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... investing strategy and portfolio solutions. It's a return to Sustainalytics, however. Tapscott previously served as head of APAC ex Japan for one year. Previously based in Sydney, Tapscott has served as executive manager, responsible investing and ...

Australia emerges as corporate climate leader: MSCI

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... spotlighted technology maturity as a key driver of transitional pace. The analysis found this was particularly true in the APAC region which generates over half of global energy-related carbon emissions and houses some of the fastest-growing clean-tech ...