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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 ...

Governments must act on net zero: Morningstar

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
... Managers Initiative. The survey comes after FINSIA came out urging the financial services industry to increase climate science skills to prevent negative risks on the economy.

Climate science skills needed in financial services

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
As the COP26 summit continues, an industry body is calling on the need for greater climate science skills in the financial services industry. FINSIA believes without climate science skills, financial services organisations are at a great risk of negatively ...

Honan acquires Modern Risk Solutions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
Honan Insurance Group has acquired Modern Risk Solutions, an insurance and risk advisory specialist focused on emerging tech, startup and life sciences. The acquisition sees Modern Risk continue operating as a discrete entity, to be referred to as Modern ...

IOOF to adopt new name, brand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
... scouring internal and external research to ensure a data-driven decision was made. "Marketing is as much art as it is science," Mota said. It marks the natural next step for IOOF, he said, reinforcing the group's desire to be known as a financial ...