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Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... landed at UNLESS Financial as a co-founder. Medcalf has spent two decades at the forefront of responsible investment and ethical finance - advising individuals, families and NGOs. He served on the board of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... said. For Purpose Investment Partners has received institutional backing from the likes of Qantas Super and Australian Ethical. Michael Trail, the executive director of the social impact investment manager, said 15 years ago he would have liked to see ...

Green moves: RIAA, Ownership Matters, Pollination Group

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... certification, policy, advocacy, and leading practice in responsible investment. The outgoing chair recently departed Australian Ethical, where he served as chief executive of superannuation, to lead the Fred Hollows Foundation. He will remain on the ...

Active Super to pay $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... super fund's "contraventions were serious" after it benefitted from its misleading conduct by misrepresenting the "ethical" nature of a significant part of its investments, following the guilty verdict handed down last June. This enhanced its ability ...

ESG funds third-best performing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
ESG-focused managed funds were the third-best performing asset class in the year to January 2025, achieving a 17.7% return on a median basis, new Rainmaker Information data shows. International equities in large caps and international equities in emerging ...

Ethinvest names general manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... 2000 as an analyst. He spent more than two decades there, becoming a portfolio manager and working his way up to head of ethical investments, overseeing some $1.6 billion in funds under management. In all, he spent 22 years at the business. Moore also ...

Ares builds up wealth team with Fidante poach

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia and New Zealand, and work alongside Marc Page, who arrived late last year as a principal. While Page landed from Ethical Partners Funds Management, he was at Fidante for six years before that. At Fidante, the multi-affiliate investment management ...

Australian Ethical sees path through anti-ESG push

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical's deputy chief investment officer and head of multi-asset John Woods believes that recent anti-ESG moves create a unique opportunity for ethical investors. Despite short-term disruptions caused by policy shifts from the new US administration ...

Vanguard ESG funds rake in highest inflows: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Four Vanguard ESG funds recorded the highest net inflows in the year to December 2024, new Rainmaker Information research found. The International Shares Select Exclusion Index Fund, one of Vanguard's three unit trusts making up the top 10, raked in ...

Weak whistleblowing protocols risks ethicswashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... You've heard of greenwashing, greenhushing and socialwashing - now meet ethicswashing, the practice of appearing to be ethical while not actually following robust practices. Report It Now, a global corporate transparency and ethics reporting solutions ...