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Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has launched the nation's sustainable finance taxonomy and will be trialled by the likes of HESTA, Rest, Westpac and Moody's Ratings. The sustainable finance taxonomy aims to support the credible allocation of capital ...

HESTA progresses gender diversity targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA is doubling down on its commitment to working with more gender diverse investment teams, saying that as of this year it no longer works with any all-male external managers. Releasing its biannual Gender Diversity in Investment Management 2024 ...

HESTA moves risk chief to advisory role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA chief risk officer Andrew Major has moved into a newly created advisory role to work with the fund's investment leadership on strategy. The transition represents a natural evolution for Major, who before joining HESTA's risk division in ...

Super moves: Future Fund, WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... team. The second recruit has been appointed director of portfolio risk. Gupta was previously an investment manager with HESTA, where he focused on portfolio construction and risk. "With the recent addition of Edwina and Ashish, our Sydney office now ...

HESTA divests MinRes over ongoing governance issues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA divested its remaining shareholding in Mineral Resources (MinRes) following the resignation of the miner's entire ethics and governance committee just six months after it was established. The $89 billion fund put MinRes on watch in October last ...

Aware Super, HESTA join forces against Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
Aware Super and HESTA have voted against the re-election of Woodside director Ann Pickard, who also chairs the Energy Board's Sustainability Committee, with HESTA also voting against the broader remuneration plan. The super funds said the gas giant ...

Investors continue to dump Climate Active certifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... Minderoo Foundation exited the scheme in January, while ECP Asset Management and Yarra Capital withdrew at the end of 2024, and HESTA and Pacific Equity Partners withdrew in June 2024. In late 2023, the government undertook a consultation to determine ...

Pendal's Blayney lands at HESTA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA has made two new senior hires including a general manager of dynamic asset allocation and a general manager of information security. Former Pendal Group's head of multi-asset Michael Blayney will take on the former role with Nick Catherall ...

HESTA hunts for portfolio construction and risk specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... looking to replace him. "We are in the process of recruiting for this role and look forward to announcing this in due course," HESTA said Joining in January 2021, Sommers was responsible for managing the strategic asset allocation and risk budgeting ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
With the Earth breaching 1.5°C, HESTA and Alphinity Investment Management are tightening their net zero portfolio alignment methodologies, sector transition pathways, and adaptation to climate change to reduce physical risk. HESTA and Alphinity - both ...
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