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Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... to fight a Republican proposal to prevent pension fund managers from basing investment decisions on factors like climate change. This month, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote ...

Don't discount Vietnam: Dragon Capital

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... focuses on ESG as risk management. "VEIL continues to expand its environmental, social and governance ("ESG") and climate change program and team workforce," she said. "The fund remains committed to fully-integrating ESG considerations into all aspects ...

Funding boosts ASIC greenwashing remit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... $8.3 million over the period will establish a sovereign green bond program to raise capital for environmental and climate change-related programs. Some $1.6 million will develop a sustainable finance taxonomy for classifying economic activities according ...

Kilter Rural launches $500m agriculture fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
... droughts, three access points is good." Gunn said Kilter Rural has always been accepting of the science around climate change and has been planning its landscapes for extreme weather events with the help of the CSIRO and IPCC. "For many years, the CSIRO ...

Rest signs mandate with Palisade Impact Fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023
... Rest deputy chief investment officer Simon Esposito. "Significant investment is required to address the scale of climate change and energy transition and the road to net zero creates investment opportunities." Australian-based Palisade Impact said it ...

Cut spending and raise taxes, super preservation age: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... spending and raise taxes as soon as possible, adding the problem will only get worse as the population ages and climate change worsens. Among its recommendations in Back in black: A menu of measures to repair the budget are two key superannuation measures ...

Maple-Brown Abbott relaunches sustainable fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... "We believe investors can help shape a better future," she said. "The challenges facing our society, including climate change, resource management, financial inequality and disparity in living standards - require purposeful capital investment to enable ...

The seven global megatrends to watch: CSIRO

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... 2020, and this could increase to around $73 billion by 2060, assuming a low emissions future." While trends around climate change present significant challenges, they also point towards some emerging opportunities when it comes to clean energy and other ...

Super funds are lousy at communications: Strategist

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... shiny suits who interfere and stuff things up", Ralph said. "They think that society has lost its way, they think climate change is bulls***, they tend to be less educated, and they tend to be more male," Ralph said. "They're often earning quite ...

Professionalise sustainability within funds: Panel

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
A panel on the impacts of climate change has heard how, as ESG approaches evolve, super funds must be conscious of their competency in the space and have processes for measuring it. Appearing at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, UTS Institute ...