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New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... staff in gender inclusion. Good Return also collaborates with partners to help entrepreneurs manage the effects of climate change by funding infrastructure and inputs that "will build" more resilient business models or mitigate against emissions. It ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... allocating lots more money to private markets investments. The China-born American was also recognised for addressing climate change challenges and opportunities, pushing for more corporate reporting on sustainability. However, in August 2020, Meng resigned ...

Study finds 5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... Shell and BP via ESG funds is safe, the NGOs said. "Companies that pursue fossil fuel expansion projects in the midst of a climate crisis are jeopardising our future. Their presence in ESG funds violates the very concept of sustainability," Urgewald ...

CEFC funds sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... related to operational energy efficiency and embodied carbon, as well as meeting additional requirements around physical climate risk assessments and consideration of stretch targets aligned to the International Energy Agency definition for zero-carbon-ready ...

TAL director named CEDA chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... migration, aged care and disadvantage, and our sharply curated major events program, including new annual summits on climate change and AI. "Thanks also to my fellow CEDA board members for their support, professionalism and expertise over the last five ...

Perpetual appoints demerger specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... "eager bidders to emerge." Hong arrived from NSW Treasury, where, for three years, he was the executive director of climate change and balance sheet. He also worked as NSW procurement executive director of commercial and advisory, part of the state treasury. ...

Super moves: Aware Super, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... of Max Hamra who last month joined CareSuper as a responsible investment analyst arriving from Investor Group on Climate Change where he served as manager of corporate engagement for nine months. Before that, he held the same role at Funds SA, where ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... confidence or lead to misinformed investment decisions; specifically pointing to internal system failures and poor-quality climate-relate financial disclosures. "High quality, consistent and comparable information about reporting entities' climate-related ...

Government to streamline financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... addition to accounting and auditing standards, the new integrated body will better support the ongoing development of climate-related financial disclosure standards. "Our standard-setting institutions play an important role underpinning the integrity ...

Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... Meanwhile, Max Hamra has joined CareSuper as a responsible investment analyst. Hamra arrived from Investor Group on Climate Change where he served as manager of corporate engagement for nine months. Before that, he was a senior responsible Investment ...