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Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... handle pre-investment operational due diligence, ongoing monitoring and risk reviews, manager and service provider assessments, ESG operational due diligence, and custom advisory and consulting solutions. "We have revisited our approach to operational ...

Tim Unger to depart ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
Australian Retirement Trust is losing one of the country's most prominent sustainability specialists, with veteran ESG expert Tim Unger set to depart at the end of the month. Unger, senior portfolio manager of sustainable investments, is tasked ...

ASIC sues Fiducian for ESG failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... duties as a responsible entity and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct about its environmental, social and governance (ESG) fund. ASIC is alleging Fiducian failed to act with care and diligence as the responsible entity of the Diversified Social ...

Alphinity takes global fund to UK, Europe

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... leadership across diverse sectors and geographies, it said. The fund will be classified as an Article 8 fund reflecting its ESG-centred investment approach that promotes environmental and social sustainability and allocates to companies that follow good ...

Ex-Qantas Super private markets lead lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... impact. He brings over 18 years of experience in financial services, with particular expertise in sustainable investment and ESG integration. His career includes previous roles at PwC and Goldman Sachs, as well as a position as finance director for a ...

Managed portfolios now the default: AMP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... traction, growing at twice the market average rate. This is particularly evident with agencies offering global equity and ESG-focussed investment strategies. Changes in customisation approaches are also a tailwind for the rising popularity of managed ...

Igneo Infrastructure Partners expands leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... Pearce joins from Stonepeak where she was a managing director, and she previously served as head of investor relations and ESG at Infracapital. She began her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. "Carolyn has a strong track record and proven ...

ESG labelling could 'destabilise' super system: RIAA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) is concerned a 'one-size-fits-all' ESG labelling regime would actually increase the risk of greenwashing. Earlier this month, the government commenced a consultation on the introduction of sustainable ...

Three portfolio managers exit Stewart Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... responsibilities in May 2023, while he stayed on as comanager. Morningstar placed a five out of five grading of the fund's ESG risk rating. Parent firm First Sentier Investors (FSI) declined to comment on the reason behind the exits. "We can confirm ...

High-risk super options pay off: Morningstar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... short-term resilience (three-month net flows of $27 million and $16 million respectively), as members rotate into lower-risk, ESG-aligned vehicles amid macro volatility. "The relative softer flows into sustainable options are not a rejection of ESG but ...