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Social impact groups bolster leadership

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
International Justice Mission (IJM), the world's largest anti-slavery organisation, has appointed a new Australian CEO. Plus: award-winning sustainable fashion house The Social Outfit gets new head of impact. David Braga has been appointed to lead ...

Sandon Capital to buy carbon farms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Andrew McBain, director and company secretary, and has a carbon credit pipeline through to 2039. Paul Jensen is the non-executive chair. He also holds non-executive positions at Monash Absolute Investment, Australia Made Campaign, and the Watarrka Foundation. ...

Upskill needed as mandatory reporting looms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Australian businesses and financiers face significant challenges in reporting on sustainability - a technical skill that is essential to meet climate targets and ensure a smooth and effective transition to net zero. Both government and high education ...

Australian Ethical lead returns to CoreData

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
The investment director of one of Australia's premier ethical investment firms has returned to a global market research consultancy after a decade. Angus Dennis has moved back to CoreData to lead responsible investment and ESG, after a two-year stint ...

MLC Life hires from U Ethical

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
A former U Ethical Investors' ethics and impact manager has landed at MLC Life Insurance as a sustainability manager. In the new role, Desiree Lucchese will help advance, refine, and implement the insurer's broad sustainability strategy and ...

Indigenous communities reunited with $25m in lost super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... banking services, as well as the significant opportunity to offer improved assistance," First Nations Foundation chief executive Phil Usher said. "It's clear that millions of dollars in superannuation are being disconnected from Indigenous communities ...

Shared Value founder heads up regional alliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... pushed the view that super funds should leverage capital to add value to society - in October 2020 but stayed on as a non-executive director, where she will remain. She then picked up a variety of short-term consulting projects in the interim, including ...

Nature taskforce announces leadership overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... leaves the role open to candidates. Maruma Mrema is also assistant secretary-general of the United Nations and deputy executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP). Alongside co-chair David Craig she led the TNFD from design and development ...

Mercer nabs Aware sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Mercer Investments has appointed Guy Shearman as a senior sustainable investment analyst. Shearman joins from the $160 billion superannuation giant Aware Super, where he spent three years as a responsible investment analyst. Before that, he was an ESG ...

Deutsche Bank links 33% of long-term bonuses to non-financial targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... the prior past performance approach. The bank first announced it would integrate sustainable finance components into executive pay in 2020. Executive pay will be set against targets such as the amount of sustainable financing and ESG investments, the ...