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CEFC invests $80m in private equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Capital takes an "active approach" to working with portfolio companies to achive meaningful change, said Crescent Capital director of ESG Lucy Cooper "We look forward to extending this approach to support our portfolio companies in their decarbonisation ...

Fund Manager round up: Maple-Brown Abbot, Brookfield, Cultiv8

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... enhancing the negative screen, as well as aligning more closely with the UN Sustainable Developent goals." CEO and managing director Sophia Rahmani said the Maple-Brown Abbott Australian Sustainable Future Fund leverages the firm's resources, expertise ...

RIAA hires head of certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... movement. Shalini Samuel joins RIAA as head of certification. She comes to the industry body from B Lab AANZ, where she was director of certification and standards learning. B Lab AANZ is the non-profit entity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand that ...

Businesses back stronger Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... needed to be a focus point within government, much as there has been in the UK on this," said professor Justine Nolan, director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW Sydney. "It was a sense that if we're setting up a new form of regulation ...

Market Forces asks for ASIC investigation of ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... resolution lodged by over 100 individual shareholders at the bank's AGM last December," said Will van de Pol, acting executive director, Market Forces. "Our letter to ASIC alleges a pattern of mischaracterisation by ANZ to make the resolution appear ...

The "Wild West" of "blue" investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Chambers and speakers Nicky Landsbergen, partner with EY's climate change and sustainability services team, Ethinvest director of philanthropy Blair Palese, South Pole climate action head Thomas Schroeder, and Minderoo Foundation sustainable ocean ...

ESG goes mainstream: How the role has changed and what lies ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... firm Talent Nation. The talk, ESG Market Insights Powered by Talent Nation, featured health insurance company Bupa's director of sustainability and ESG Mel Cutler and Andrew Sellick, principal sustainability - global infrastructure at the Queensland ...

New Zealand regulator warns Vanguard for disclosure failure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... addressed, could harm the integrity of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition regime," said Paul Gregory, FMA executive director of regulatory response. "Compliance with the requirements of the MRSO regime supports fair, efficient and transparent markets ...

Australia "on notice" as final TNFD draft framework released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... support when the final recommendations are published in September." Elizabeth Mrema, TNFD co-chair and deputy executive director of UNEP said she hopes that nature-related reporting will become a standard business practice over time. "I look forward ...

Apostle Funds Management launches carbon credit fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... fund has been a long time in the making and complements our other ethical investment strategies," said Apostle managing director Karyn West. "Connecting pools of capital with the problems that face our economy is critical to progress and is core to our ...