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Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... top-funded sectors behind enterprise software. People-focused sectors, such as edtech, human resources, and diversity and inclusion-related innovations, faced a sharp pullback, reflecting investor caution around long sales cycles and tightening customer ...

Young workers drive DEI in workplace: RIAA panel

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
The windchill of politics on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs fronts a deadly counterpoint - young professionals entering the workforce with zero tolerance for inappropriate workplace behaviour. Andrew Pozzo, chief executive at Cbus Property ...

Proposals against ESG, DEI to increase: Proxy advisor

MATT TOLEDO  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... proposals against environmental, social and governance factors are increasing, as is pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Still, many of these anti-ESG and anti-DEI proposals are failing. Goldman Sachs shareholders recently defeated ...

Green moves: Agscent, HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... sustainability office that was responsible for the firm's sustainability strategy as well as its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The reports hold that Leonard's responsibilities will be shared between respective businesses within HSBC ...

Trump presidency pushes Aussies to ethical super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... actively moved to scale back US involvement in climate change initiatives, and publicly derided diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, spurring many corporates to abandon their own DEI measures. In February, Future Super conducted polling ...

New fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... inclusive policies and practices. Notably, the first fund supported training for almost 3000 financial staff in gender inclusion. Good Return also collaborates with partners to help entrepreneurs manage the effects of climate change by funding infrastructure ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Opportunities (GEO) option, effective March 28. The major change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated nature of GEO's investment universe, its investment returns have been volatile," ...

Sandi Orleow joins ECP board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Super, ACT Treasury and chairs the Australian CFA Diversity Council. "Sandi has a passion for innovation, diversity and inclusion. Her involvement and active engagement with professional associations including CEW (Chief Executive Women), WOB (Women ...

BlackRock ditches diversity targets, drops hiring mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... there have been a number of significant changes to the US legal and policy environment related to [diversity, equity and inclusion] that apply to many companies, including BlackRock. "In light of this, we are conducting an ongoing review of our global ...

Australian Ethical sees path through anti-ESG push

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... at more attractive prices. "For most ethical investors, 'drill baby drill', the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and reversal of the plastic straw ban, are initial actions that seem to have turned back 20 years of sustainable ...
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