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Team Super names retirement chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... those of larger ones. "It depends on the fund," he said. The TWUSUPER chair said aside from the funds having an older demographic, the merger process prompted an exhaustive examination of what it takes to be a modern, best-in-class contemporary fund. ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian economy faces major structural shifts including from the global net zero transformation, technological and demographic change, and global fragmentation. "The Future Fund has made clear it can play a prominent role in capitalising on these ...

Schroders quietly backpedals on carbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Schroders has quietly changed its exclusion policy and sustainable fund offering, all while issuing a disclaimer on ESG. The active investment manager dropped the word 'Sustainable' from its Schroder Sustainable Global Core Fund; the fund will now be ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... to benefit from megatrends that will influence the global economy and society: digitalisation, decarbonisation, and demographic changes. "The TowerBrook Delta fund will look to invest in sectors of the economy at the forefront of the megatrend shifts ...

Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Ethical investment options may have now entered a phase where they are performing well compared to traditional funds. Last year the news hit headlines that just one-third of ethical managed investment funds have outperformed their non-ethical peers ...

Fink counts the cost of "easy money" in annual letter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
BlackRock chairman Larry Fink warned that dominos may be starting to fall as global economies count the price of more than a decade of easy money in his annual letter to investors. In a letter where ESG and climate change took a backseat to concerns ...

AXA IM sets ESG targets for executive remuneration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
Global fund manager AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) will include ESG targets as part of the long-term incentives of senior executives. Beginning this year, the deferred compensation of around 400 people at AXA IM that will start to be paid in 2024 ...

Global food systems at risk: Barclays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Global food systems are increasingly insecure, with systemic issues fuelled by the war in Ukraine, extreme weather event and labour shortages, according to research from Barclays. The report from Barclays Impact Series examined the risks facing food ...

RBA governor cites climate, energy transition in inflation puzzle

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
RBA Governor Philip Lowe cited climate change and the transition to renewable energy as two of four longer-term changes to the global economy that are "likely to affect the dynamics of inflation, central bank policy and the way business operates in ...

Critical talent shortage could stall net zero progress: Hays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... growth in green talent, there is a risk to excluding more experienced professionals. "The real tendency from an age demographic perspective is that younger workers, Millennials, Gen Z workers, are the ones pursing the roles in the green economy," Kent ...