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Mercer appoints sustainable investment leader

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... climate change," Mather said. "Investors are under increasing pressure from their stakeholders to ensure that environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities are effectively incorporated, while meeting fiduciary obligations and managing ...

NSW to introduce options for first home buyers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... supply by cutting planning assessment timeframes, co-funding enabling infrastructure and investing in new and improved social housing," he said. "This government will use every lever at its disposal - including tax, planning, supply, or working with ...

University of Melbourne launches investment funds

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... to university networks and mentoring to create seed-fund-ready companies. Up to 20% of this funding can be invested in social purpose ventures. Meanwhile, the $100 million Tin Alley Ventures Fund, led by Tanarra Capital, will invest in high-potential ...

Dimensional launches PIEs in NZ

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... firm will apply its sustainability approach - which targets greenhouse gas emission reductions and other environmental and social criteria - to developed market equities. Implemented Investment Solutions is the manager and issuer of the funds. A PIE ...

Westpac outlines new social initiatives

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
The initiatives have a strong focus on women's financial security, including increasing home ownership rates among females. Westpac has expanded eligibility for its existing Lender's Mortgage Insurance (LMI) Waiver to include more health professions. ...

Carbon transition and MBFID: Is it possible to meet both?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... the ability to accelerate the transition meaningfully, and also have within their knowledge set the ability to design the social outcome for it as well," Delahunty said. Elsewhere, delegates showed a keen interest in hydrogen as a potential replacement ...

Colonial reveals Australia's huge untapped workforce

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... societal trend has benefits that go beyond the financial," the report outlined. "It offers people opportunities to stay social, mentally active and importantly maintain a sense of purpose." Colonial First State chief executive of superannuation Kelly ...

VFMC names new executives

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... long-term goals. "Paul appreciates the value of delivering strong financial returns alongside measurable environmental, social and governance benefits, which is closely aligned to our purpose and our role as a responsible steward of capital," she sai ...

Don't forget the 'S' in ESG

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... but the myth in the room," Traill said. "You don't need to be Einstein to extrapolate that there's a symmetry in social performance and economics." Drawing on her experiences in the US, Parametric managing director, investment strategy Jennifer ...

The first 30 years: Super's biggest changes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... industry. "If you go back 30 years, it was tiny and pretty much irrelevant to capital markets, how society operated, to social change; it's just huge now and it wasn't like that when I started out," he said. "Thirty years ago, [industry] funds ...