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Green moves: Airtrunk, JPMorgan, T. Rowe Price

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Airtrunk lands a renewables specialist, JPMorgan hires from Amazon, and T. Rowe Price promotes an impact executive. Robert Bartrop has returned to Sydney to lead the social impact and community strategy at AirTrunk, the Asia Pacific technology company ...

Pacific Current Group appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... JBWere. Currently, he also serves on the boards of The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Myer Family Investments, Geelong Grammar School, and Cannatrek Limited. Commenting on the new role, Arter said: "I am honoured to be appointed chair of PAC. On behalf of ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... players. The survey of 87 boutiques from the UK and Europe, conducted by the University of London's Bayes Business School in the paper The case for boutiques, highlighted several advantages they have over larger asset managers in a concentrated market. ...

Bill Gates to shutter Gates Foundation in 2045

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
Bill Gates says he will give away all his wealth over the next two decades and close the Gates Foundation permanently in 2045. It's a big change for the foundation which, when established in 2000, was done so with the charter that it would continue ...

Guy Debelle to chair Funds SA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... and public sector entities both in Australia and overseas. Debelle also holds the position of honorary professor of the School of Economics and Public Policy at Adelaide University, and is a director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Tivan. ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
School-leaver job uncertainty and the widening skills gap is costing the Australian economy billions of dollars every year, according to a new report by Year13 and HEDx. The report, which highlights the challenges faced by students in post-school transition ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
The financial services industry has made modest inroads with gender parity, and closing the wealth and financial literacy gap, but the reality is accelerated action is needed from the government and private sector to tackle entrenched inequalities as ...

Housing construction lags broader economy by 49%: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
The housing construction sector is lagging Australia's productivity levels by 49% and is helping fuel the affordable housing crisis, a new report from the Productivity Commission reveals. The Housing construction productivity: Can we fix it? report ...

ART, MLC AM, HESTA name directors

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... Australian Healthcare and Hospital Association board for six years and became the associate dean of the Rural Clinical School at the University of Notre Dame in 2019. Brydon is renowned for his advocacy for children, his work on the social determinants ...

Government to scrap advisers' approved qualifications list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... of advisers dropped from 28,000 in January 2019 to fewer than 16,000. "The current education pathway is not sustainable. School leavers are not attracted to the specialised area of study, and it is a significant investment for career changers. Fewer ...