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Impact Alpha Partners adds to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... space." Meantime, joining the firm's board as a non-executive director is Désirée Lucchese. Lucchese is currently a sustainability manager at MLC Life, and previously spent more than three years as head of ethics and impact at U Ethical Investors. ...

First Sentier axes investment units, AUM takes $14bn hit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... Sentier Australian Small Companies Fund lost $221 million for the period, while the Stewart Investors WS Worldwide Sustainability Fund and First Sentier Concentrated Australian Share Fund lost $163 million and $121 million respectively. The investment ...

Auditors lambast mandatory climate reporting requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... address its approach to relief from obligation as well as resources on its website for those who prepare and use sustainability reports. These resources will be housed under a single dedicated page on ASIC's website dedicated to climate-related disclosures. ...

ISPT issues $1.5bn sustainably linked loan facility

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... Bank of Australia (CBA), ANZ, Westpac, and HSBC acted as joint mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners and joint sustainability coordinators. With the transaction, ISPT has taken its sustainability-linked loans to a total of $5.75 billion. Additionally ...

Australia's budget position ranks second among G20 nations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... larger, during election years," the IMF said. Fiscal consolidation is needed in most countries to strengthen debt sustainability and financial stability, it added. "While the pace of fiscal consolidation should be calibrated to strike a balance between ...

Commercial real estate optimism ticks up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... relocate core functions in response to growing physical and functional obsolescence. This is raising the bar on sustainability as tenants are seeking to secure highly accredited green buildings at the point of relocation wherever possible. "While sentiment ...

Russell Investments introduces new ESG-focused ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... strengthen in Australia and, at the same time, investors seek investment solutions focused on the environment and sustainability. "RGOS gives investors access to quality investment ideas from multiple managers. In selecting these managers, we assess ...

Corporate super fund to be terminated

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... many years to retain viability. Only about 10 remain; two decades ago, there was 761. MFMRF has faced the same sustainability issues, achieving growth but barely. In 2013, the fund had just 80 members and $27.2 million in funds under management. In 2023 ...

Aware Super chair named governor-general

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... the community and women. She has been a member of the Australian Faculty of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme for 12 years, and a senior associate in the International Programme.

UK advisers told to review retirement advice processes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... and advisers to raise standards. Review findings The FCA found not all advice firms are effectively considering sustainability of income withdrawal in retirement, saying many do not use cashflow modelling or do not use it appropriately, potentially leading ...
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