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RQI hires research duo

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... senior quant portfolio manager and head of alpha research. "We're very pleased to welcome back Tom and bring Alex on board, who both bring extensive experience and technical expertise to the team and join us at an exciting time to support our research ...

CA ANZ issues warning over new financial standards body

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... government that not including practicing accountants on its new financial standards body is "akin to having a medical standards board without a practicing doctor". The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), the Auditing and Assurance Standards ...

Hearts and Minds boosts dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Investments (HM1) declared an increased half-year fully franked dividend of 8 cents per share, payable in April 2025. The board said the decision to increase the dividend was supported by strong investment performance and a significant increase in reported ...

Super moves: Aware Super, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... public-private partnerships, and aged care investments. A former investment director at AMP Capital, Jiang is also an experienced board director, having previously been on the boards of Taranaki-based Powerco New Zealand and Macarthur Wind Farm.She brings ...

Platinum staffers join Merlon Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... two investment specialists from Platinum Asset Management and invited former AMP chief Andrew Mohl to join a new advisory board. Julian McCormack and Kirit Hira have joined the investment team as portfolio managers. McCormack spent almost a decade at ...

Perennial beefs up sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... specialist investment group focused on lower mid-market opportunities and Microequities Asset Management. Vlad Laevsky comes on board as an investment specialist responsible for Queensland, joining from platform HUB24 where he was a business development ...

Investors still drawn to DEI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... published on or after February 25, ISS "will no longer consider the gender and racial and/or ethnic diversity of a company's board when making vote recommendations with respect to the election or re-election of directors at US companies under its ...

Universities jump on ESG skills shortage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... scrutiny from activist groups over its approach to climate science. "The NGOs and climate activists were demanding more, the board and conservative commentators were saying... Woodside's doing as much as it can," Bowley said. "Big investors [said] we ...

Weak whistleblowing protocols risks ethicswashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
ESG commitments without whistleblowing infrastructure in place risk 'ethicswashing' and enforcement by the regulator, warns global reporting services provider Report It Now. You've heard of greenwashing, greenhushing and socialwashing - now meet ethicswashing ...

ART, MLC AM, HESTA name directors

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Adelaide Bank chief Marnie Baker and former Brighter Super director Jennifer Thomas have joined the Australian Retirement Trust Board. Both directors bring extensive experience to the ART board. Baker spent 35 years with Bendigo, including six years ...