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Sustainable investing trends for 2026: Morningstar Sustainalytics

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
In its recent Sustainable Investing Trends report, Morningstar Sustainalytics provided a comprehensive review of sustainable investing in 2025 and market insights for the new year. Characterising 2025 as an "undeniably challenging year for ESG and sustainable ...

The benefits of modern slavery due diligence laws in Australia

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
Anti-slavery commissioner Chris Evans hosted the Moving the Needle: Exploring Options for Due Diligence Laws to Combat Modern Slavery webinar where experts discussed the potential benefits and methods for developing due diligence laws in Australia. ...

Embedding biodiversity risk assessments requires incentives: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
In partnership with Melbourne University's Biodiversity Institute, asset manager Franklin Templeton co-produced the Making money talk nicely: Biodiversity impact assessment for investors report. Findings outlined that portfolio impacts on biodiversity ...

Women in Super announces new board line-up

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... communications nous is backed by serious policy credentials. Her background includes senior communications leadership at the ACTU and roles advising federal ministers across the attorney-general, health and families portfolios. The second new director ...

REI Super names investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
REI Super has promoted one of its longest-serving investment executives to the newly created role of chief investment officer, following a sweeping overhaul of the fund's investment portfolio. Angelos Siapkas has been named chief investment officer ...

Principal rejoins Mercer team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Mercer has recruited a former employee as a principal and senior actuarial consultant. In her new role, Christine Lu will focus on life insurance consulting as well as on defined benefit and defined contribution superannuation. Lu has 14 years of experience ...

Rainmaker's John Dyall to retire

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
Rainmaker Information's long-serving head of investment research John Dyall will retire at year-end, closing out a career that has left a deep imprint on the Australian investment and advice sectors. Dyall joined Rainmaker in 2015, bringing more ...

Global resilience is a key systemic risk: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey told the recent ASFA Conference 2025 that the super fund has been considering global resilience as a key thematic when making responsible investment decisions. "We see this as a systemic risk, the same as climate change ...

HESTA pays $40k fine for greenwashing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA has paid $37,560 to comply with two infringement notices issued by ASIC for misleading statements. ASIC alleged the $100 billion super fund made misleading statements in paid advertisements about its commitment to removing carbon emissions investments. ...

Boards face limitations in managing climate risks

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
At the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) Summit 2025, Queensland Investment Corporation's (QIC) ESG and general manager Alison Ewings said that "climate change is a risk in its own right" and "a threat multiplier." But there are limitations ...