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Super moves: Aware Super, Future Fund, ART, AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... a manager in its responsible investment team, Rufimy Khoo has been appointed to the investment committee at First Australians Capital - Australia's first Indigenous-led debt fund. The organisation is at the forefront of impact investing, empowering ...

US pension funds move against James Hardie chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Three US pension funds have lodged proxy votes to remove Anne Lloyd as James Hardie chair at the company's AGM this week. This comes after James Hardie faced significant backlash over a $14 billion deal to acquire US-based Azek. A deal that was done ...

Super moves: AusSuper, Aware, MLC, JANA, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Major players in alternatives and real assets are reshuffling their ranks, with asset consultants, super funds and investment managers all announcing new hires and promotions. AustralianSuper confirmed that head of mid-risk portfolios Jason Peasley ...

APRA told to reign in super system's financed emissions

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... "Climate change is not a niche ESG issue-it's a systemic financial risk over the 70-year time horizons that many Australians will experience with their super. A VER framework ensures that funds act in members' best long-term financial interests," ...

iExtend hires national BDM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... adviser capabilities and strengthen client relationships." iExtend was launched more than three years ago, providing Australians who were seeking to cancel or reduce their life insurance cover and had a change in health, with another choice. The firm ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Rest Super's operational due diligence team is defecting to Channel Capital in a major coup for the local investment manager. The move comes as Channel Capital launches a specialist global operational due diligence (ODD) business to meet growing ...

Grattan calls for expanding Safeguard Mechanism to electricity sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... this change will not have a big impact on households, with electricity bills already on track to halve by 2050, as Australians move from petrol and gas to all-electric appliances and adopt solar panels. Grattan modelling suggests that by including the ...

Axing CGT breaks could boost budget by $22.7bn: Oxfam Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... billion to the budget annually. Oxfam said this sentiment is widely popular with a YouGov poll identifying that 73% of Australians were concerned about the increasing wealth and income gap. The survey also indicated that 72% of Australian voters would ...

Super moves: CareSuper, Hostplus, Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
CareSuper has appointed Matt Macdonald as portfolio manager within the private equity team. The private equity specialist joins from AustralianSuper where he worked as a senior investment analyst for over four years. Before that, he spent an equivalent ...

Green moves: Leaders for IMPACT, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... value partnerships she collaborated with EXPHYS for many years as part of her mandate to develop programs that help Australians recover from injury, illness, and chronic conditions. "Their purpose to optimise the health of Australia through exceptional ...