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ESG inflows defy global trends

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
New Calastone data has found all Australian equity inflows last year were for ESG-focused equity funds, after 2023 recorded $494.8 million in outflows. However, since Australia lagged on ESG investing relative to other markets, this could be a lagging ...

Orbis recruits investment specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Orbis Investments, the contrarian equity manager with $62 billion assets under management, has hired an investment specialist to work with its local client team. Based in Melbourne, Werner du Preez will oversee Orbis' relationships with research ...

Workplace expert joins Aware Super in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... several companies, including American Express, Deloitte Australia and Unilever. At Deloitte, he led the APAC gender pay equity strategy which resulted in Deloitte achieving its first Workplace Gender Equality Agency compliance and citation. Aware Super ...

Quant fund hires from JP Morgan

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... manager's assets under management, focusing on wholesale and institutional clients. Haslinger served as co-head of equity capital markets at the US investment banking giant and earlier worked at Deutsche Bank, She is also a non-executive director ...

Green moves: UN PRI, Ditchley, Honest Work

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... bank which manages roughly $1 billion and offers sustainability-linked home and personal loans. Passionate about gender equity, she will also continue in her role as co-chair of the International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) and deputy chair ...

Salter Brothers secures green loan for luxury retreat

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... across energy efficiency, consumption, and onsite renewables. Salter Brothers specialises in property, credit and private equity. It recently bought three Bannisters hotels on the north and south coasts of New South Wales with a green loan also financed ...

Climate funds see first year of outflows

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Morningstar Sustainalytics sustainable investing research head Hortense Bioy. The median return for sustainable large-blend equity funds was 20.7% in 2024 - compared to 21.5% for conventional funds and 24.1% for the Morningstar US Market Index. US sustainable ...

Trump Paris exit "bad news" for rest of world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... exited the Paris Agreement and vowed to maximise US oil and gas production and exploration. At least a dozen diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and LGBTQ+ and racial equity rights were wound back, with Trump stating: "We will forge a society ...

Quinbrook closes $722m debt financing for batteries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Infrastructure Partners focuses purely on investing in transition infrastructure. It has invested roughly US$5.6 billion of equity capital in 43.3 GW of energy infrastructure assets representing a total transaction value of US$48.3 billion.

Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... portfolio manager for public markets strategy. Castles has a strong background in portfolio management, specifically with equity index and equity quantitative products, having spent over a decade in similar roles at First Sentier Investors' quant ...