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Major financial institutions back Australia climate finance reforms: ASFI

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Bank, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, HESTA, Metrics Credit Partners, Moody's Ratings, NAB, Rabobank, Rest, and Westpac. Of the institutions surveyed, 80% indicated their support for the expanding taxonomy to include climate adaption and ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... Citi and State Street. McDermid spent two years at Rest, with most of her career at National Australia Bank, KPMG and Westpac. Channel Capital said operational risk has become a bigger focus for institutional investors and regulators as investment structures ...

Ex-Qantas Super private markets lead lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... Ambrian as chief operating officer, and Murray Rolfe joined State Super's investment operations team. Separately, Westpac appointed former Deutsche Bank investment professional Stefanie Holtze-Jen as deputy chief investment officer of private wealth ...

VC firm invests in National Renewable Network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... opportunities, with further announcements on additional investments expected. Fund II is backed by cornerstone investors Westpac, the CEFC and Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). Other capital providers involved in the NRN Series A funding round ...

CBA slashes oil and gas financing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... whether for power or making steel unless it's proven to be compatible with a safe and liveable climate." Meanwhile, Westpac, ANZ, NAB and Macquarie "cannot keep their heads in the sand." "CommBank has proven that ending support for companies making ...

UBS ditches Net-Zero Banking Alliance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... Alliance, which launched in 2021. The alliance had 125 global banks as members at the time of writing. Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac, ANZ and BOQ are currently members. In March, UBS said it delayed its climate targ ets deadline to 2035 for its operations ...

Picture Wealth named fastest-growing planner: report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... number growing rapidly." Allan Maitland, the company's chief executive and formerly the head of consumer bank for Westpac in WA, added that part of the company's appeal is its ability to cater for advisers, self-employed or not, to continue providing ...

VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... Asian-focused, long-only, high conviction equities fund manager. During her career, Taylor has held roles with IAG, Merrill Lynch, Westpac and the Reserve Bank of Australia. In her farewell message, Taylor highlighted several achievements during her ...

UK ditches sustainable finance taxonomy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... taxonomy. ASFI launched the nation's sustainable finance taxonomy that will be trialled by the likes of HESTA, Rest, Westpac and Moody's Ratings. HM Treasury pointed out that what is clear is that international experience suggests designing and ...

Acenda hires from Hostplus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... industry." Acenda is set to welcome a group chief executive, as Kent Griffin and Tim Tez announce their departures. Former Westpac executive Chris de Bruin has been appointed chief executive, subject to regulatory approvals of the merger between Acenda ...