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Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... of the RIAA Conference today with a presentation on sustainability reporting disclosure requirements - particularly on climate reporting. Last year, the law mandating climate reporting disclosures was passed. O'Rourke called it a once-in-a-generation ...

Scrutiny, costs major hurdles to boosting IPOs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... listed companies, and found the median ongoing cost of being listed was $7.2 million a year. On top of this, mandatory climate reporting has now added about $1.2 million, as estimated by Treasury. "Those ongoing costs of being listed, while some of them ...

PRI chief executive David Atkin to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... one of the foundation funds that subsequently became AustralianSuper. The outgoing PRI boss is a former director of the Climate Council, Frontier Advisors and chair of SuperFriend - a not for profit that that brings industry funds and insurers together ...

Bill Gates to shutter Gates Foundation in 2045

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... foundation is also working with farmers to develop new, more resilient seeds to continue to yield crops as more difficult climate conditions are experienced, and is funding public digital infrastructure to ensue people always have access to financial ...

Super funds put foot down on Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... climate risk. "As we've previously communicated to Woodside Energy, our decision is underpinned by our belief that climate change is one of the most significant financial risks to our portfolio over the long term," an Aware Super spokesperson said. "Aware ...

Australian Ethical calls out QBE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Australian Ethical Investment has called on QBE Insurance Group to disclose the risk climate change presents to its ongoing business, and the justification for its policy that allows the continued unrestricted underwriting of new oil and gas projects ...

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

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... been decisively overhauled." With public debt soaring, a housing crisis that's hitting the younger generation, and a climate emergency demanding decisive action, Global SWF said the Labor government is repurposing the Future Fund as more than just ...

GSFM, Munro branch out to New Zealand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... Global Growth Climate Leaders Fund has entered the New Zealand market. The fund, which was spawned from the Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund, has been set up as a portfolio investment entity (PIE) for Kiwi wholesale investors. Marking its first fund ...

Northern Trust survey reveals what's testing asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... though it was cited less frequently by respondents from APAC. Risks from domestic political instability followed. Climate change was also recognised as a long-term challenge, with the potential to impact asset values, particularly in sectors tied to ...

Navigating the impact investment sector for instos

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... to look at the social and environmental outcomes, and we have built a 1% of impact investments into our original climate change roadmap," Weier said. "That also helps, from a portfolio point of view, in diversification; we look at impact investment as ...