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Cbus recruits lead for new core equities portfolio

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... quantitative internal equities capabilities in domestic and global equities," Gavin stated. "This new strategy has relatively few capacity constraints and can, over time, be a multi-billion dollar strategy that is central to the overall Australian equities ...

Northern Trust streamlines carbon credits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... technology. Northern Trust acts as the designated custodian. "Despite some automation and digitisation in the VCM over the last few years, the measurement, reporting and verification of carbon credits has been characterised by manual processes which ...

Aussie billionaires make $67k per hour: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... up-call that the futures of the vast majority of the global population are being crushed by the enormous wealth of a tiny few," Morgain commented. Conversely, the World Bank calculates that the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since ...

Ethical investment holdings double: CoreData

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
The number of high-net-worth (HNW), core affluent, and mass affluent investors holding ethical and sustainable investments has roughly doubled over the past year, according CoreData. The CoreData research obtained by Financial Standard seeks to capture ...

Green Moves: S&P, SBTi, Macquarie, Anti-Slavery Commissioner

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... interim CEO Ehr "has been a steady pair of hands and will provide David with the essential guidance he needs during his first few months." Kennedy will start in Q2 and lead SBTi's target validation subsidiary. Kennedy said: "I've spent much of my career ...

HMC Capital unit beefs up Melbourne office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... over 16 years in business process optimisation within the wealth management sector. His departure from Insignia Financial a few months back ended a long career with Aviva, NAB, and Insignia. The four recruits will join Nathan Chew and Andrew Hobbs who ...

What to expect in 2025

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... chain issues." As for AI, there is an estimated US$1 trillion expected to be invested into AI infrastructure over the next few years, meaning investors will need to pay close attention to potential misuse, errors and bias, intellectual property theft ...

Battery storage the next energy disruptor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... I've spent my career covering, for instance, the Chinese industrialisation trend that was very much one country and a few specific commodities. This is a global trend across multiple commodities involving multiple countries so it's possible that ...

Boards vulnerable to next wave of climate litigation: IGCC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... well covered by existing misleading conduct laws under the ASIC Act. The panel expects the screws to be tightened in the next few years. "There are currently many voluntary standards of climate reporting, and we're heading towards mandatory climate ...

Broader job pain finally hits ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... regulatory demands finally sink in. For many, this downturn has been a "welcome relief from the intense activity" of the past few years - a "calm before the storm", says Evans. There is concern firms are under-resourced with the mammoth task ahead. "Internal ...