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NGS names deputy CIO, expands ESG teams

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... management, has reshuffled its investment leadership and ESG team. Michael Mi has been promoted from head of portfolio construction and quantitative research to the newly created role of deputy chief investment officer. He will also assume leadership ...

Cbus bolsters ESG integration with new hire

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Williams will support the creation of long-term returns for members of the $98 billion industry fund for building and construction workers. With 20 years' in institutional investment, she held several advisory roles since resigning from the Victorian ...

Microsoft makes largest ever offset purchase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... of 1995. The credits are facilitated by STRATOS, 1PointFive's first industrial-scale DAC facility currently under construction in Texas. Last year Microsoft purchased removals from Heirloom, which is developing a DAC hub in the US in collaboration with ...

First renewable energy zone to start works

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... next six years. Having just gained planning approval, from late 2024 the project is set to reach financial close and construction works will then commence. It's expected to be in operation in 2028. Located in NSW around Dubbo, Dunedoo and Mudgee, the ...

QIC beefs up energy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... third recruit Mark Irwin also joins as a senior adviser. He currently runs ADBRI - one of Australia's pioneering construction materials and industrial mineral manufacturing companies. Irwin has earlier held senior roles at Oz Minerals including chief ...

Investors eye energy transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Zone (SW-NSW REZ). This includes Fulham Solar Farm and Battery and Blind Creek Solar Farm and Battery, due to start construction later this year. With its arms in many pies, Octopus owns and operates energy assets across the entire lifecycle, leveraging ...

AOFM launches first Green Treasury Bond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... energy rollout, energy efficiency, upgrades, EV and core electric transport infrastructure, low-carbon buildings construction, and climate change adaptation. It will also go to sustainable land management, biodiversity conservation, water and wastewater ...

Sustainable Finance Taxonomy open for consultation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... first three priority sectors under development: electricity generation and supply; minerals, mining and metals; and construction and the built environment. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) Co-CEO Estelle Parker said the news ...

Australian housing crisis escalates as affordability worsens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... a significant decline in building approvals to an annualised rate of 150,000, with a marked weakness in new home construction loan approvals. They said while housing affordability deteriorates, strong population growth - 635,000 in 2022-23, with an expected ...

Looking beyond the gender pay gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... professional, scientific and technical services are more male dominated. Indeed, the WGEA gender pay gap reveals the construction industry - a traditionally male-dominated field - has a median pay gap of 32%. Similarly, the finance industry has a median ...