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Diverse leadership cements business growth, positive workplace culture: HESTA

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... surveyed said greater gender diversity in leadership benefited talent attraction and retention, and workplace culture, while most (91%) believe that it has benefited their business performance. Just below half (41%) of signatory companies have a gender-balanced ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... as non-mature as it has limited climate targets. WBA found that a shift towards low-carbon investments by the world's most influential companies can mobilise at least US$1.3 trillion towards climate action. The research assessed 2000 of the most ...

Granite Bay Private Wealth launches, taps BlackRock

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... founding partners, Matt Nicholls is the chief operating officer, while Jessica Brady acts as general manager. Nicholls was most recently the head of advice at Wilsons and prior to that worked at Morgan Stanley for more than 15 years, appointed to senior ...

ETF investors bet on global diversification, FX hedging

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... Equity ETFs dominated flows in 2025, with $7.3 billion flowing into broad-based global share ETFs making the category the most popular for the year, reflecting continued appetite for low-cost diversified exposure. Defensive assets also played a central ...

Forrests' donation crowns WA as most generous state: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... Nicola Forrest's gifting of $5 billion worth of Fortescue shares to the Minderoo Foundation has crowned Western Australia the most generous state in the country, a new analysis by KPMG reveals. KPMG modelling of 2023 financial year Australian Taxation ...

Trump 'playing with fire' over Fed indictment threat

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... "After all, in the US it is long term rates - not the Fed's control over short-term rates - that determine mortgage rates and most corporate borrowing costs. Rumours that President Trump may nominate his economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, as the next Fed ...

GQG reports $5.8bn net outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... (US$300m), while the global, emerging and US strategies saw outflows of $894 million (US$600m) each. The investment manager said most of its net revenue was from management fees. "As in prior periods, we note that our management fees (fees that are a ...

Cbus hires corporate governance head

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026
... years of experience in governance, law and finance within the financial services and superannuation sector, joining Cbus most recently from ESSSuper where she was group executive, legal risk and compliance, and board secretary," a Cbus spokesperson confirmed ...

Global trade a patchwork of relationships, regional priorities: Analysis

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
Global trade could prove more resilient than expected despite growth in economic nationalism and increasing tariffs, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said. After conducting new scenario analysis, BCG offered four possible models for the future of global ...

SMEs prepare for Payday Super cashflow crunch

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
... Earlypay chief executive James Beeson has urged SMEs to begin preparing for the Payday Super reforms now. He noted that while most commentary has focused on compliance, the bigger issue for many operators is the forced change to the cash-flow system ...