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Second consultation kicks off on ESG product labelling

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
Treasury is welcoming industry feedback on the labelling of sustainable financial products, with a particular focus on retail offerings. The consultation will cover the scope of the labelling system, disclosures, thresholds for labelling, and certain ...

Super moves: Brighter Super, UniSuper, Rest, Acenda

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
... quantitative macroeconomic research. Before joining Frontier, Miao worked as a research assistant at RMIT University on an ESG research project in partnership with Northern Trust Asset Management. She also held a research role at Monash University, where ...

Palisade restructures leadership, creates partnership group

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... lead Palisade's legal function as group general counsel; and finally, Will Clarke will remain responsible for operations and ESG as head of operations. The partnership group will lead the business to capture the opportunities across unlisted infrastructure ...

HMC Capital wholesale head exits for COO position

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... the Challenger representative on six affiliate boards, was a member of the Office of the Responsible Entity and sat on the ESG Steering Committee for Challenger Ltd. Earlier in his career, he worked in corporate finance at GPT Group and as an investment ...

Super moves: ART, Allianz, HESTA, AusSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... our key stakeholder relationships," he said on LinkedIn. At Deutsche Bank, Coustar most recently served as global head of ESG, a role she held for four years. In that capacity, she led the German lender's sustainable finance activities across private ...

Laws to limit US pension plans' use of ESG pass

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... factors in their investment decision making. The House voted 213-205 to pass the legislation, which looks to curtail use of ESG by pension funds, particularly those governed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The bill was put ...

Super moves: WATC, Medibank, HESTA, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... help in risk management. Finally, Karin Halliday has stepped down from her role as director of investment stewardship and ESG at Australia's sovereign wealth fund. After a long career spanning markets, governance and investment stewardship at AMP ...

A new landscape for sustainable investing in 2026

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... sustainable investing in 2025 and market insights for the new year. Characterising 2025 as an "undeniably challenging year for ESG and sustainable investing", the report spotlights the prevalence of anti-ESG sentiment in the US and the shift towards ...

NGS Super backs Gresham House forestry platform

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... and Forestry Charter. This code follows national and international sustainable forest management standards and has embedded ESG considerations. It is categorised as an Article 9 product under SFDR. Gresham House chief executive Tony Dalwood described ...

BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... Implementing this strategy also means we carefully select and evaluate our external asset managers." In 2022, PME began defining its ESG goals, evolving the goals into an ESG framework and later an ESG index portfolio it called the portfolio of tomorrow ...