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Australian housing crisis escalates as affordability worsens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Rising interest rates and weak disposable income growth have caused housing affordability to drop to its lowest point in decades, according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) senior economists. The economists pointed out that Australian Bureau ...

Borrowers pressured for plans as Scope 3 left in dust

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... insufficient for investors to accurately gauge transition risk. Climate transition risk is a significant material financial risk for high-emitting companies on the Climate Action 100+ focus list. The data was released in the 2023 Citi Climate Report ...

Canberra acts on billion-dollar net zero plan

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... ready to take on the next step... to create a domestic solar manufacturing industry. "Australia has the opportunity to build high quality products across the solar PV supply chain. Although we have a very small production capability today, we have the ...

Indigenous communities reunited with $25m in lost super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024  |  NEWS
The total superannuation found by First Nations Foundation on behalf of Indigenous Australians now comes in at $25.2 million. In 2023, the foundation reconnected First Nations people with $1.2 million, bolstering the total found. The superannuation ...

Directors welcome new climate reporting regime

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... (AICD) welcomed the development. Managing director and CEO Mark Rigotti said the rules will incentivise organisations to make high quality, comparable, meaningful, and useful climate disclosures. However, this is an extremely complex and challenging ...

Institutional investors shift gears amid "new market regime"

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... higher-for-longer interest rate environment. As a result, many investors are decreasing their equity exposure and shifting towards high-quality public and private fixed income. Nearly half of investors plan to increase allocations to investment-grade ...

Kiwi energy broker sparks interest across the pond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... clients access to the New Zealand Emissions Units (NZU) market. The NZU market is sought after by global investors due to its high integrity, the company said. The firm operates across 28 countries as a trading intermediary in the wholesale financial ...

Deutsche Bank links 33% of long-term bonuses to non-financial targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
One of the world's largest financial institutions now ties a whopping third of long-term bonuses to sustainability and social objectives for the first time, starting this year. The change was outlined in its latest non-financial report outlining progress ...

Experts issue warning over AI washing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Artificial intelligence (AI) is perhaps the most transformative technology since the advent of the internet, poised to herald an unprecedented digital economic revolution. To appear at the precipice of the movement, some are employing deceptive tactics ...

Podcast: Driving high (ESG) performance with Fiona Mann

THE GREENER WAY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Greener Way is Brighter Super head of Aussie equities and ESG Fiona Mann to talk about the fund's approach to ESG and what high performance means in a variety of settings and professions.