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Former TCorp exec sets up consultancy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
A longtime investment professional has set up an investment consultancy to advise superannuation funds on the total portfolio approach (TPA) to investment. Nigel Wilkin-Smith founded Long Horizon Enterprises to address what he sees as a glaring gap ...

Green moves: Alphinity, Australian Ethical, Climate Change Authority

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
The Climate Change Authority has welcomed Gretta Stephens as a new member, just one month after her resignation as head of climate change and sustainability at BlueScope. The independent statutory body, set up to advise Canberra, highlighted Stephens' ...

TAL nabs AIA strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
TAL Austalia has recruited a senior investment strategy and portfolio manager from rival AIA Australia. John Archer was at AIA for two years, joining from CommInsure where he spent 17 years, most recently as the executive manager of investment strategy. ...

Iress hires wealth tech experts

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Iress, the financial services software and data firm, has made two hires to its Asia Pacific wealth team. Callum Masson and Martin Johnson have been appointed executive general manager of product and technology and general manager of technology respectively. ...

Apex on local hiring spree

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Apex Group is on track to achieve 20% annual organic sales growth over the next two years and plans to triple its headcount to 1000. After acquiring Iress' superannuation platform late last year, Apex's big opportunity is in member administration ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... to prevent going through it," said Andrew King, associate professor in climate science, deputy head and chief investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century. "Even though we've only had a single calendar year at over 1.5C ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... despite murky policy signals - which seem to be shifting day-by-day - the financial industry is still committed to the long arc towards net zero, says Robeco climate and biodiversity strategist Lucian Peppelenbos. "It is remarkable that... net-zero-committed ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned about the "twin crises" of biodiversity loss and climate change resulting from deforestation. That was a key finding of ISS STOXX's Natural Capital Research Institute's first report on how investors ...

Geopolitical tensions create investor opportunity: Franklin Templeton

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Escalating geopolitical tensions around the world has made defense a critical focus for investors, according to a new paper from Franklin Templeton. These geopolitical pressures, comparable in impact to climate change, are now immediate, direct, and ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
BlackRock dismisses allegations it increased spending in agribusiness and ignored known harm in its active and index funds. The complaint follows legal precedent that financial institutions are responsible for acting on human rights and environmental ...
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