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Green moves: Fremantle Seaweed, Impact&ble, Emmi, Petuna Aquaculture

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... former head of stewardship. Altius Asset Management co-founder Bill Bovingdon has been named the first industry fellow at the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response. With 25 years of asset management experience in responsible and sustainable fixed-income ...

New forecasting tool for climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... supply chains is a significant challenge. And current methods of communicating climate risks are insufficient, according to UNSW academic Tanya Fiedler. Her research at the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response concludes that 'storylines' offer ...

Aus Ethical gets ex-PRI chief

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Catalyst, Frontier Advisors, Australian Sustainable Finance Institute, Affirmative Investment Management, The Achieve Foundation, UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute, and Roc Partners. Australian Ethical CEO John McMurdo said Reynolds brings deep ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... research suggests. A new report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) shows from 2003 to 2022, the average wealth of the highest 20% rose by 82%. What's more, the average wealth of the highest ...

UNSW launches Institute for Climate Risk and Response

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... navigating and implementing regulations and standards and measuring and evaluating their effectiveness with confidence. The UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR) will focus on informing industry practice and policy, predicting human behaviour ...

Sustainable finance heavyweight to chair National Reconstruction Fund board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... emeritus of AirTree, the chair of Vera Living, and a director of MetaOptima Technology Inc. He is also an adjunct professor at UNSW and a member of the UNSW Centre for Social Impact's Advisory Council. Kathryn Presser, currently the chair of the South ...

Turning PV waste into investment opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... need to be replaced," Majewski said. Extracting value from PV e-waste Majewski's colleague Rong Deng, researcher at the UNSW School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering said a major opportunity lies finding a way to extract value from ...

Businesses back stronger Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... much as there has been in the UK on this," said professor Justine Nolan, director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW Sydney. "It was a sense that if we're setting up a new form of regulation, then government needs to be well organised ...

Schroders' sustainable multi-asset fund receives RIAA certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... William Wu, an experienced portfolio manager and also co-author and lecturer of Sustainable and Responsible Investing at UNSW. Sustainability has been a key research priority for the team for many years and this will continue given the ever-increasing ...

Raiz Invest partners with UNSW on machine-learning technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
Micro-investing app Raiz Invest is partnering with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to use the university's machine-learning technology to optimise its Raiz Rewards offering. George Lucas, Instreet Managing Director Raiz Rewards is a loyalty ...