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Australia has 'incredible opportunity' to lead in clean energy: UN

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Reporting Community of Practice (SRCoP) has launched, designed to fast-track Australian business leadership on climate and sustainability reporting. This comes as Australia positions itself to co-host the 31st UN Climate Change Conference ...

KKR makes $500m investment in Aussie solar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Global investment firm KKR has announced it will invest $500 million to strategically partner with CleanPeak Energy to grow its distributed energy platform. KKR's investment will support CleanPeak in growing and developing a pipeline of distributed ...

Climate reporting brings skilled workers to the fore

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Local businesses are not yet fully equipped to comply with mandatory climate reporting but they want to be, with research suggesting managers with green skills could earn up to 13% more. Surveying some 436 businesses across Australia, RMIT's Towards ...

Picture Wealth named fastest-growing planner: report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
A financial planning group that began life as a fintech start-up is enjoying a rapid growth phase. Picture Wealth Advisory leads the top 10 AFSLs with the highest number of new advisers in the year to June, based on a new financial adviser report released ...

IGCC releases capital alignment framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has released a new framework to help investors bridge the capital allocation gap when it comes to financing the climate transition. The Financing Australia's Corporate Climate Transition report provides guiding ...

La Trobe names distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
La Trobe Financial, the alternative asset manager, has appointed a former BlackRock executive as its head of distribution. James Waterworth brings over 20 years of experience in investment management and client distribution strategy to the role. He ...

QIC names four new principals

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
Queensland Investment Corporation has promoted three senior managers in its global infrastructure team. Grace Harnwell, Jason Rapley, and Mark Blencoe have been promoted to the role of principal, while Thierry Cojan has been appointed as senior principal. ...

BlackRock, Vanguard bankroll 'genocide', illegal occupation: UN

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
A new report by the United Nations claims BlackRock and Vanguard are the major asset managers profiting from "sustaining the illegal Israeli occupation [of Palestinian territories] and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza". UN special rapporteur Francesca ...

Financial materiality of nature-related risks now clear: TNFD

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
A new paper from the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) demonstrates the financial consequences of nature-related risks are already being felt by businesses and the global economy. The report, jointly authored by the University ...

‍Padua recruits tech professional

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
Padua Solutions has appointed Dimitri Diamantes to the newly created role of senior technical services manager, overseeing the advice fintech's software, services, research and data divisions. Diamantes has almost two decades of experience in financial ...