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JANA wins another NFP mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
Investment consultant JANA has scored a mandate from a charitable organisation that is the steward of some $1.6 billion in assets. Uniting Financial Services (UFS), the lending and investment arm of the Uniting Church Synod of New South Wales and the ...

GSFM to distribute Access Capital Partners offering to HNWs

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
GSFM has partnered with Parisian firm Access Capital Partners (ACP) to distribute its European infrastructure and smaller buyout strategies to local wealthy investors and family offices. GSFM chief executive Damien McIntyre said the partnership will ...

Rest names internal global equities lead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023
... Mercado will report to Rest's head of listed assets Kiran Singh, anchoring his role in Sydney. He was previously a partner at Paris-based asset manager Comgest, serving as a high-conviction portfolio manager specialising in global equities. Additionally ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023
... enforcement 'holiday' just doesn't stack up. It's just burning up more time that we don't have to address Paris alignment in the ASX. "A freeze on public interest litigation, of the type ACCR has brought in relation to Santos' ...

Super funds taking on the climate crisis

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
... setting its sights on achieving a net-zero carbon footprint by 2050, as is consistent with the goals of the United Nations Paris Agreement. To advance its goal, the fund launched a sustainable growth product in 2021 and divested from thermal coal mining ...

Co-heads take charge of FI&C at BNP Paribas APAC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
... financial intermediaries and corporate client line Bruno Campenon. Williamson's tenure with BNP Paribas began in 1999 at their Paris office, he moved to APAC in 2008 to launch the Securities Services business in Hong Kong. Williamson has since held several ...

CEFC, Crescent Capital Partners invest in decarbonisation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... This will entail Crescent setting decarbonisation pathways for each acquired company, exceeding the requirements of the Paris Agreement, with the goal of achieving net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions within 10 years of acquisition. Crescent will also focus ...

abrdn terminates funds amid transition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2023
... investment officer, hiring Peter Branner from APG Asset Management. The role had not existed since the departure of Rod Paris at the end of 2021. abrdn said, among other things, the hire is aimed at improving investment performance.

bfinance completes management buyout

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... client base, both by geography and by investor type, has been a major contributor to growth. Although bfinance was founded in Paris and is headquartered in London, 50% of the firm's revenues now come from engagements for investors outside Europe, compared ...

Six local funds in world's top 100: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... market and economy - and have a distinctive opportunity to contribute to real-world systemic change by contributing to a Paris-aligned future, consistent with net zero emissions by 2050." In the five years the study has been done, the share of assets ...