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Instos committed to ESG despite lower advocacy: BNP Paribas

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
The BNP Paribas ESG Survey 2025 found most institutional investors remain committed to sustainable investing, while also moving towards more specific ESG-related investment themes to ensure both return and impact. The survey revealed that while there ...

Green moves: Carbon Market Institute, JO Hambro

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
The Carbon Market Institute has farewelled its chief executive, while a Regnan analyst jumps to JO Hambro. John Connor, chief executive of the Carbon Market Institute (CMI), has wrapped up six years there to take on a new role as head of policy and ...

Activist investor hires distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's former head of investment solutions, Scarlett Dorney, has joined Sandon Capital in much the same role. As head of client solutions at the activist investor, Dorney's role will encompass distribution, strategy ...

'Staggering' gender perception gap persists: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
A new study reveals that men are generally more optimistic when it comes to gender parity across the professional workplace, despite that data suggests otherwise. According to Robert Walters' latest Women in the Workplace report which surveyed over ...

Green moves: Greenpeace, IGCC, Mirvac, PRI

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has a new executive director, policy in Francesca Muskovic. She will join in late July from the Property Council of Australia where she's been national policy director. She's been with the body for ...

Financial materiality of nature-related risks now clear: TNFD

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... companies, financial institutions, regulators and fiscal policymakers alike, the most effective way to mitigate these risks is to act now - to shift financial flows away from activities that harm nature, toward those that can maintain, restore and regenerate ...

Carbon emission stabilisation 'reframes' investment climate risk: Emmi

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... continued growth in emission, China's plateau, and declines in other developed markets, it said. "Institutional investors must act decisively in this window of opportunity, accelerating capital allocation toward net-zero transitions, enforcing regulatory ...

Talent exodus hits Zenith, Lonsec and Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
Zenith Investment Partners will see the departure of its lead consultant, highlighting the intensifying battle for experienced asset consultants. Zenith lead consultant Steve Tang is understood to have joined colleague Ben Davis at Ascalon Capital. ...

Hollywood heavyweights call on pension fund to divest fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
More than 200 actors have signed an open letter to the trustees of the SAG-Producers Pension Plan asking it to divest from fossil fuels and redirect the assets into responsible investments. Members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation ...

Australian banks fail to manage financed deforestation: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... from their lending portfolios and invest in internal capability to identify and monitor nature related risk." Additionally, ACT identified 583 cases of significant native vegetation loss between winter 2023 and winter 2024 and found 159 met the UN Food ...