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New board director for Morrison & Co

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... airport economic regulators and is an independent non-executive director for Wessex Water and a Trustee of the British Science Association. She has also worked in executive director roles for UBS and Goldman Sachs earlier in her career, leading the UK ...

Investors dig deeper for alternative assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... e-commerce, and rising wealth, the Alternatives in 2022 report finds. In Australia, Preqin predicts a boom in the life science industry thanks to government-led pro-growth policies. Examples of support include significant tax offsets for research and ...

Aware Super leads on climate action: IGCC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
... program to reach net zero by 2050 and aligning to a 1.5 degree scenario, IGCC said. The CCPT, an 80-page plan, sets out the science and road map on how the fund can transition and make net zero goals a reality with the backing of the trustee board. "Aware ...

Foreign investment in Australian commercial property hits record high

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
CBRE data reveals foreign investment in Australian commercial property has reached a new annual record, with $16.6 billion in office, retail, industrial and hotel assets having changed hands year to date. The analysis shows that North American investors ...

State Super sets net zero targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... expectations for climate change risk to be effectively managed. We understand and appreciate their views. In addition, science experts and data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also show it makes the best financial sense to act now. ...

Blackstone buys GIC's stake in logistics trust for $2.1bn

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... GIC's stake in DALT through its core plus real estate business, which focuses on logistics, residential, office, life science office and retail assets in global gateway cities. Dexus will own the rest of the joint venture. About 90% of DALT's portfolio ...

Quinbrook acquires battery storage specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... underway. We believe Habitat is truly ahead of the game in devising 'state of the art' methods at the leading edge of data science combined with the power markets know-how to maintain competitive edge." He added that Habitat is a unique business with ...

Morningstar launches retirement strategy tool

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... decision sciences at Morningstar, launched the new tool today. He said it is designed to take into account behavioural science and the way that retirees already think about money. "For the vast majority of clients, they need to take on some market risk ...

Packhorse names ESG head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... accumulating rural land on a mass-scale across Australia so the opportunity to implement regenerative practices based on science and deploy significant carbon sequestration projects is extremely exciting," Mitchell said. "The expansive scale at which ...

The challenge of retirement income

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
... keeps pace with inflation and without eroding capital. Magellan Asset Management head of retirement solutions and data science Paddy McCrudden told the Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Retirement Income that finding a solution with the existing ...