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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 ...

Australia ranks 13th on gender parity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025 shows Australia's gender parity has improved markedly in the past 12 months. Australia has jumped 11 places to rank 13 th globally for gender parity, with the gap now 79.2% closed. In Asia Pacific ...

Young workers drive DEI in workplace: RIAA panel

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... has launched a graduate program to recruit female staff in property and leasing offices. "People need to realise that [gender diversity] enhances the bottom line. It's not just, 'These are your targets. Go ahead and do it.' There's a reason for [DEI]," ...

Public sector pay gap revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published the gender pay gaps for 120 public sector employers and two corporate groups for the first time following legislative changes in 2023. The data includes details of the gender pay gaps for well-known ...

Green moves: Aware Super, Minderoo Foundation

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... longer-term sustainability. In her new role, Stevenson will largely focus on the five-year plan to uplift communities, support gender equality, protect natural ecosystems and respond to emerging threats and challenges. Her career spans financial and ...

Future Super, Verve to overhaul investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... Smart Future Trust, giving members of each a completely new menu of investment options for less, including a dedicated gender equity option. From May 23, the Future Super Fund, including the Verve Super sub-plan, will be moved into a standalone division ...

New fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Good Return head of Asia and impact investments Diana Tjoeng said the new fund will address the gender bias in the financial sector and its engagement with small businesses. "Small businesses in the Asia Pacific form ...

Future IM/Pact expands partnerships, appoints chair

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... intergenerational wealth transfer by 2034. Women are also growing their own wealth at a faster rate than men and prefer gender diverse advice personnels, Future IM/Pact said. "Our passion has always been to bring more women into the capital allocation ...

US rejects SDGs, Agenda 2030

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... foremost for our own - that is our moral and civic duty. President Trump also set a clear and overdue course correction on "gender" and climate ideology, which pervade the SDGs." In 2015, all the member states of the UN approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

SSGA abandons gender diversity targets

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has ditched its gender diversity efforts eight years after it championed the Fearless Girl campaign, which pushed for the representation of women in senior leadership positions. SSGA previously pushed for listed companies ...
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