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Battery storage the next energy disruptor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... the financing component - could bring forward meaningful investments in the energy transition." The concern from the conference delegates, however, is how the industry growth bullishly predicted to top hundreds of billions of dollars could be affected ...

Climate debate shifts gears after Trump win: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... billion tons to 2030, according to MIT analysis. Waking up to an overcast day in Melbourne it was sobering news for conference-goers to swallow with their morning coffees. But arriving at the venue - Sofitel - it was clear to see the industry still sees ...

Nature and climate now on equal footing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... emerging as a key investment consideration, according to Estelle Parker and Duncan Paterson. At the UN biodiversity conference (COP16) in Colombia this week, event president Susana Mohamad said nature is now on 'equal footing' with climate in ...

Robeco specialist poached by Northern Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
A senior member of Robeco's local quant team has quit the Dutch asset manager to join a former colleague at Northern Trust Asset Management. Jan Rohof - the firm's technical quant investment specialist based in Sydney - is joining former Robecco ...

DEI code to boost retention: CFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... Local investment analysts can join the CFA Society of Australia, which has 3,500 members and due to hold its annual conference next month in Melbourne.

Investors worth $42trn target state leaders at COP29

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... investors to sign on until November, when the statement for action will be presented to delegates at the UN Climate Conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan. Aside from the IGCC, coordinators include the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), CDP, Ceres ...

Disorderly transition may spark financial meltdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... US$0.5trn. Paris Agreement signatories are obligated to update their NDCs ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference ('COP30') in Brazil in 2025. NDCs are emissions reduction commitments that signatories made under the Paris Agreement ...

States and feds step up on nature and resources

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The federal and state governments set new ambitions to take the country to the biodiversity UN Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16 CBD) in Colombia later this year. Canberra on Friday committed to set a national ...

Super funds to solve the housing crisis?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Mary Delahunty said at the Australian Shareholders' Association Conference yesterday that addressing the supply side of the housing crisis requires an infusion of private capital. Delahunty ...

The rising role and risks of generative AI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... industry professor - emerging technology Nicholas Davis says. Appearing at the Stockbroker and Investment Advisers (SIAA) conference, he explained that generative AI uses complex transformer models to process vast amounts of diverse data. While these ...