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Gender diversity, overboarding top of mind for instos: Georgeson

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... mini-AGM season. Analysing the AGM season between January and June involving ASX300 companies, Georgeson found 39.7% or 77 in total of the directors elected to boards were female while 60.3% (117) were male. "The minimal change in these appointment rates ...

Net zero more important than energy costs: Economists

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... important thing for Australia to achieve. This is followed by ensuring reliability of the power supply and minimising the total cost of generation, distribution and retailing; just five considered cost to be most important. A carbon price is the preferred ...

Macquarie AM partners to buy UK wastewater service provider

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
A consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will invest an additional £655 million, bringing the total equity investment by MAM-managed funds and co-investors to nearly £3 billion, into Southern Water, a UK water and wastewater service provider. ...

Australian Ethical drops fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... applied only to members with insurance. Standard Default Cover members will experience an increase in the amount of Death and Total & Permanent Disablement (TPD) insurance cover they receive, while Death and TPD cover for others will become or remain ...

Australian banks fail to manage financed deforestation: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... deforestation that are tied to banks via a mortgage over the land title, our analysis gives just a small picture of the total deforestation likely to have occurred in the 12-month period we examined. "The financial sector has a special responsibility ...

Equity Trustees fined by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
Equity Trustees was fined nearly $60,000 by the regulator for making misleading statements about the holdings of a sustainable bond fund. Equity Trustees agreed to pay three infringement notices totalling $56,340 over allegations it made misleading ...

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... compiled by Giant Leap and Cut Through Venture found that in 2022, startups in climate, health and people raised 38.9% of total investment in early-stage startups in Australia. This increased to 55.6% in 2023 but dipped to 41.5% in 2024. Climate dominates ...

Plenti wins WA government mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia, he added. The fintech lender launched in 2014 and offers automotive, renewable energy and personal loans. The total loan portfolio consists of $2.5 billion. The renewable loan book has about $341 million.

Rest flags sustainable mandates to soar

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... all of a sudden, the energy transition has become meaningful for them." Overall, the fund expects to allocate 1% of its total funds under management to impact investing next financial year. This would equate to tens of billions of dollars by the time ...

Sustainable bonds hit $US7bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The global sustainable bond market reached US$6.9 trillion at the end of 2024, the Climate Bonds Initiative's latest Global State of the Market Report shows. The Climate Bonds Initiative examined green, social, and sustainability (GSS) and sustainability-linked ...