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Tim Unger quits Willis Towers Watson

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2023
Tim Unger, the high-profile sustainability head at Willis Towers Watson, has departed after 22 years with the firm. WTW has confirmed the exit but declined to comment further. While sustainability consulting is booming as companies set ambitious goals ...

Vanguard appoints head of strategy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2023
Vanguard Australia has confirmed that Matthew Dempster has been appointed head of strategy. Dempster - who has been with the fund for nearly 13 years - was promoted from senior manager of strategic growth. In the new role, he will work with the executive ...

Frontier adds two consultants

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2023
Frontier Advisors has added two new consultants to its real assets and defensive assets and private markets teams. Daniel Cave comes on board as a senior consultant and will focus on infrastructure and broader real assets research and client responsibilities. ...

State Super equities lead exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2023
After five and a half years at State Super, Andrew Huang has departed to set up his own shop in the sustainability space. As reported last week, Jonathan Chung has stepped into Huang's role of senior investment manager - equities. Huang has left ...

PGIM client group lead in sudden departure

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023
After just three months, the head of PGIM's Australia client group suddenly left the firm. PGIM has confirmed that Murray Brewer - who spent more than 14 years with T. Rowe Price - has departed the US$1.2 trillion investment manager. It is understood ...

Aussie small caps, property funds in the red

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023
Australian small cap and property investors experienced a rough 12 months of disappointing performance as macroeconomic conditions batter returns that ended up well in the red. Rainmaker's Wholesale managed funds April report shows that the property ...

Decade-long Santos well leak prompts investor concern

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
Santos has admitted that its retired offshore oil and gas field Legendre has been leaking gas for a decade, throwing into doubt investor abilities to meet net zero plans. Methane gas - a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide - has ...

Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
At a recent conference, industry leaders delivered a stark warning to Australian companies and government to ensure that workers are not left behind in a just transition to net zero - or risk the kind of political polarisation and populism that has ...

abrdn chief economist rejoins Reserve Bank

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
Jeremy Lawson has rejoined Australia's central bank after working as abrdn's chief economist for 10 years. Lawson has been appointed deputy head of the international department at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), effective August 1. He began ...

ASX expands partnership program criteria

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023
The Australian Securities Exchange is seeking stakeholder feedback for its CHESS Replacement Partnership Program as it updates the eligibility criteria for potential participants. The CHESS Replacement $70 million Partnership Program canvasses industry ...