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Super fund ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
... address every social ill facing Australia. "This makes running a super fund portfolio in light of all the ESG and climate action constraints akin to walking a high wire tightrope," he said. "Plus, through following the Sustainable Development Goals and ...

Supercharging Australia's climate investment action

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... reclaim attention from the US's climate policy introduced by president Joe Biden. In announcing a spectrum of climate action and ESG investment initiatives, the Albanese government hopes to unlock tens of billions of dollars in new capital, and in ...

Super funds are lousy at communications: Strategist

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... Traditionalists (29.9%). Firstly, he said, Inner City Progressives are politically engaged, pro-change, they like climate action, they're anti-asylum seeker treatment, they're left-wing but upwardly mobile, they don't press for redistribution ...

HESTA adds US$200m to Stafford Capital private equity fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... Sustainable Development Goals, including good health and wellbeing, gender equality, affordable and clear energy, climate action, clean water and sanitation, and decent work and economic growth. HSCIT invests through a strategy that targets direct co-investments ...

First Sentier hires to new ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... led and supported global engagements on climate change and modern slavery including the Woodside engagement for Climate Action 100+. The appointment is a "significant addition to the team, signalling the importance of ESG to its investment approach," ...

Aware Super appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... demonstrating the long-term value creation that can be achieved through a commitment to policies such as positive climate action, and equality, diversity, and inclusion." Mostyn is currently president of Chief Executive Women, chair of Ausfilm, The Climate ...

BNP Paribas names APAC head of stewardship

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... and led AIGCC's Asia Utilities Engagement Program, a collaborative engagement program that runs in parallel to Climate Action 100+. Before that, Ho was an equities portfolio manager at JP Morgan Asset Management for more than 10 years. "We are very pleased ...

Mining vital to low carbon solutions: Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
... "Paradoxically, the same awareness and concern for environmental and social issues from societies that has led us to climate action is also what we see as one of the key barriers to the expansion of clean technologies." "This is because the minerals ...

NGS Super divests oil, gas producers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... Super's announcement was mixed. "This is a giant step forward for the fund and its members, and raises the bar for climate action in the superannuation industry," said Market Forces superannuation funds campaigner Brett Morgan. "This policy does ...

FSC guidance looks to eliminate greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
... for fund managers will signal government, regulators, and consumers that the Australian investment community sees climate action as a top priority. "The FSC wants consumers to have confidence fund managers who set net zero targets are assessing their ...
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