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Podcast: Beyond ESG - UN PRI stewardship and engagement initiatives with David Atkin

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... working together to advocate for ESG integration into investment activities to promote sustainability. David Atkin, chief executive, has a long list of accolades to his name and prior experience at the helm of entities the likes of the Climate Council ...

Climate Change Authority appoints new chair

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... expensive" and "take far too long". The CCA's new member is Patty Akopiantz of Assembly Climate Capital. Akopiantz is a non-executive director at KPMG, a chair at Environmental Leadership Australia, alongside multiple other director and chair positions. ...

Women continue to lag in asset management

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Women make up 28% of the industry, but at the current rate of promotion and retention, investment teams will reach gender parity at the end of the decade. Progress is slow and poaching is rife in Australia's $4.3 trillion investment sector, with a four-point ...

QIC beefs up energy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... QIC's Australian energy investments. First up, Paul Maguire joins the team as a partner. He was previously chief executive of Lumea, a transmission services business owned by Transgrid, and before that head of Engie APAC, the energy generator and ...

Climate philanthropists lend muscle to green metal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... they sparked people's awareness of the climate and biodiversity crises more broadly," said Amanda Martin, chief executive at AEGN. "We have plenty of first-hand experience in this country of the devastating impact that climate change is having on ...

Retail CSOs do a shuffle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability officer (CSO) has taken a job with an Amsterdam-based supermarket and will be replaced by an Arnott's executive. Arnott's Simon Lowden was chief transformation officer at the biscuit brand, following a move from PepsiCo where he ...

Palisade Real Assets wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... while Material Change also operates in anaerobic digestion, composting, and development. Palisade Real Assets chief executive Stephen Burns said the significant mandate bolsters BioticNRG's ability to build value, create a highly sustainable bioenergy ...

Social TCFD-equivalent seeks leaders

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) seeks a director, a head of engagement, and four co-chairs for its working group. The TISFD is a Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-equivalent for social ...

ASFA partners with First Nations Foundation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... First Nations people and builds on ASFA's support of the First Nations Super Summit earlier this year," ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty said. FNF is a not-for-profit Indigenous financial wellbeing foundation led by an Indigenous majority board ...

UBS nabs ex-UOB sustainability lead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Global financial services firm UBS has named Jiayun Fang as Southeast Asia social impact and philanthropy lead, group sustainability and impact. Fang has a background in sustainability, social impact, corporate philanthropy, diversity and inclusion ...