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Vanguard settles Texas-led coal antitrust lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
... market manipulation, ensures a competitive and low-cost coal industry, and fundamentally resets the precedent for the conduct of large institutional investors." Paxton said that under the settlement Vanguard cannot direct its portfolio companies' ...

Governance issues on the rise: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... matters accounted for 40% of the issues, including fraud allegations, corporate governance issues, registered liquidator conduct, insolvency matters, shareholder issues, reporting issues and failure to provide books and records on company activities ...

UniSuper accused of greenwashing in GEO option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... years and Nvidia's emissions have doubled. The complaint alleges UniSuper may have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, or that which is likely to mislead or deceive, by making certain statements about the option which are not consistent with ...

Cbus confirms independent review into board member

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
Cbus has launched an independent review of the fit and proper assessment of Cbus Property board member Earl Setches after he was seen dining on a yacht with underworld figure Mick Gatto last week. "The Cbus Super board has commissioned a review of the ...

ECB imposes €7.6m climate risk penalty on Crédit Agricole

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... Bank (ECB) has imposed periodic penalty payments of €7,551,050 ($12.7m) on Crédit Agricole S.A. after it failed to conduct assessments of its climate-related and environmental (C&E) risks. The ECB's 8 February 2024 decision required the French multi-national ...

Landmark greenwashing case against Santos dismissed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... Tuesday, February 17 the federal court handed down its ruling, finding that Santos did not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct in a series of investor communications, as alleged by the ACCR. The ACCR commenced proceedings against Santos after the ...

Nest puts call out for ethical manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
The major UK pension plan is looking to award an ethical equity mandate, opening a tender process through to March 13. Nest is inviting managers to tender for management of a new custom mandate within its existing Ethical Fund. It said it is looking ...

Texas anti-ESG law deemed unconstitutional

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... Fourteenth Amendment because it fails to provide persons of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what conduct is prohibited and does not provide explicit standards for determining compliance with the law." As such, he ordered the state ...

Accounting for Nature granted $250k to develop nature positive labelling program

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
Accounting for Nature has received a $250,000 grant from the NAB Foundation to develop a new labelling certification program. The grant is an initial 12-month development phase that will focus on product design and pilot testing, while Accounting for ...

Stewardship needs realignment to produce value: Investment Association

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
While stewardship is fundamental to the integrity and success of the investment ecosystem, the UK-based Investment Association feels it may have drifted from its purpose due to recent scrutiny, saying a "realignment" is needed to deliver positive outcomes. ...