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NorthStar Impact analyst joins TCorp

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
TCorp has hired a new senior analyst to join the stewardship team on climate risk. Joining from NorthStar Impact, Sophia Carson Edwards has seven years' experience in the investment management industry. Before NorthStar, she was a sustainability ...

Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... 2023, NSW Treasurer from 2021 to 2023 and Deputy Leader of the NSW Liberal Party from August 2022. Wollemi co-chief executive and co-founder Tim Bishop, formerly at Macquarie Capital, welcomed Kean to the team. "Matt has been in the room with national ...

Shareholders to say 'no' to gambling ads

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... we're using shareholder power to take action," said Reverend Tim Costello, chief advocate of AGR and former chief executive of World Vision Australia, in a press statement. Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest, said that many of their advice ...

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... insurance broker BMS Australia has hired Dianne Riopelle as a client manager in its energy team and Toby Lucas as a client executive. The practice works with clients managing critical regulated energy networks, including transmission and distribution ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... and adaptation. Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require natural capital preservation." Campbell Global chief executive and chair John Gilleland said the group is delighted to have been mandated. "Timberland represents a unique investment that ...

Northern Trust firms up stewardship, proxy voting offering

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The US$1.5 trillion global asset manager has poached a stewardship head from rival UBS Asset Management, who will chair the proxy voting committee amid a rollout of a new proxy voting solution. Paul Clark is an investment management expert with over ...

ASX200 boards near gender target: ACSI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... 7% women. "It is wonderful to see that the ASX200 is so close to achieving 40% of board roles occupied by women," WOB executive director, Claire Braund, told FS Sustainability. ACSI CEO Louise Davidson said board diversity "improves governance standards ...

Super fund moves: Aware Super, AustralianSuper, Mine Super and Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Aware Super has recruited a senior analyst to join the $180 billion super fund's responsible investment team. Reporting to the stewardship manager Louise Bradshaw, Satoko Asai will contribute to developing and implementing Aware Super's stewardship ...

Australian Ethical scores gold, others fall off charts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... from tech exposure, while clean energy lagged due to poor investor sentiment. "ESG is hard to define," Aman Ramrakha, executive director of research at Rainmaker Information, says. "Depending on how tightly you define your strategy, it can lead to different ...

Help on nature, climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... market participants needing, or wanting, to report on their nature-related dependencies and impacts," Tony Goldner, executive director of the TNFD said. Nature risks "are business risks that should be measured and disclosed in a more robust manner," ...