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Work from home saves employees $5308

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... Australians still regularly work from home, including around 60% of professionals and managers. "Given the broad economic and social benefits of the working-from-home shift, we should look to maintain these gains, even as the labour market softens," ...

JANA wins Aboriginal Investment NT mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... Not-for-profit Aboriginal Investment NT's purpose is to promote the self-management, economic self-sufficiency, and social and cultural wellbeing of Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory via innovative approaches to capital deployment ...

Super lobbies welcome bipartisan support to fight financial abuse

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... election, it will work to fight against financial abuse. This comes after Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social services Amanda Rishworth promised to introduce new measures to target perpetrators of financial abuse last week. The Super ...

QTC names new chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... executive quit the central borrowing authority for the state of New South Wales in 2022 and spent the last two years chairing social impact and climate investment organisations. These include Ready Growth Grant and the Social Enterprise Development Initiative ...

LGT Crestone poaches CRO from Challenger

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... Capital Management. "So pleased to welcome you to the family," LGT Crestone chief executive Michael Chisholm posted on social media. The incoming chief risk officer replaces Lucienne Layton who helped set up LGT Crestone, by standing up its governance ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... Building Australia's Future: Labor's Commitment to Women, launched yesterday by Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social services Amanda Rishworth. In a joint statement, the ministers said the government's plan places a new focus on ending ...

Warakirri adds kiwifruit aggregation to farmland fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... value and generating competitive returns. The farmland fund, it said, will take a balanced consideration to environmental, social, governance, and financial outcomes as part of portfolio construction. It will specifically exclude assets involving the ...

Aussies prefer advisers, analyst notes over social media

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
Australians shun social media and turn to market research and financial advisers for investment information and education, a new survey from HSBC Australia reveals. The annual Investor Insights Survey, which canvassed more than 1000 investors aged 18 ...

Michael Dwyer joins impact fund board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... be done. "Our financial returns are outpacing the CoreLogic Benchmark for Sydney by 1.5 times*, and our fully calibrated social return stands at 14.4% for 2024. We've been fortunate to have someone with the calibre of Michael along for our journey," ...

DWS fined $43m for greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... came forward with claims the asset manager was making misleading public statements about its commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. In a statement to FS Sustainability at the time, DWS called the allegations "unfounded" and ...