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Super moves: Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Aware Super has named Anna Young-Ferris as head of stewardship and senior manager of responsible investment. Reporting to head of responsible investment Liza McDonald, she'll lead the stewardship team's advocacy and engagement efforts. Young-Ferris ...

VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... Taylor highlighted several achievements during her time with VFMC. These include working closely with the investment stewardship team on developing a climate-aware framework and navigating a changing global landscape, including policy shifts under a ...

Brighter Super awards $75m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... invest across the agriculture supply chain, and we recognise the long-term value we generate is directly linked to the stewardship of the assets in which we invest and our social licence." Pinnacle had $155.4 billion in assets under management at the ...

Golden parachutes deflate rapidly for some, not all ASX chiefs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... termination payments laws in 2009 to drive down the cost of chief executive departures," ACSI executive manager - stewardship John Ed noted "Those changes have driven better accountability and avoided 'golden parachutes' which provide pay for failure ...

Aware Super beefs up sustainability team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... of ESG data and the UN Sustainable Development Goals into the investment process and managed the firm's active stewardship activities with portfolio companies, key stakeholders, and industry peers. With a background in climate science, sustainability ...

Australian Unity offloads property fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... expertise in property funds management and the robust investment framework established by PIF, under Australian Unity's stewardship, over the last 25 plus years. "The Australian Unity Property Income Fund is renowned for its focus on stable and regular ...

Super moves: QIC, VFMC, ESSSuper, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... of the funds management business. Bradshaw is a former member of a PRI advisory committee tasked with designing a stewardship initiative for nature. Last November, CareSuper merged with Spirit Super to form a fund with $53 billion in assets under man ...

Australian Ethical calls out QBE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... term and further threatening its ability to provide general and commercial insurance at the current scale." Ethical stewardship lead at Australian Ethical Amanda Richman said the investment manager is calling on QBE to disclose how much of its current ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... housing or infrastructure that fails short of performance benchmarks could "weaken confidence" in the Future Fund's stewardship, it warned. Moreover, if performance falters, "the temptation to scapegoat political interference will grow." "Strong ...

Warakirri adds kiwifruit aggregation to farmland fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... complementary partner..." Franks said. Warakirri applies an investment philosophy that views the sustainable and responsible stewardship of agricultural assets as fundamental to maximising value and generating competitive returns. The farmland fund ...