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Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... including gambling, coal mining, and oil tar sands. Court documents showed that Active Super said it wouldn't invest in companies deriving more than 10% of their revenue from gambling. Conflictingly, in its Impact Report, which is meant to show how ...

QIC adds to streak of venture capital investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... researchers. "Queensland's biotech sector continues to deliver with 60% growth since 2019, and 324 biotechnology companies currently employing over 32,000 Queenslanders in high-skilled roles," he said. "Thanks to the Queensland government and QIC ...

Who is the highest paid S&P500 company chief?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom pocketed US$161.8 million in total remuneration in 2023 to be the only boss among S&P500 companies to receive a nine-figure salary, a new pay study shows. Broadcom's Hock E. Tan is the only chief executive to receive ...

Global X brings US infrastructure ETF to Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... largest US infrastructure development fund. PAVE, which tracks the Indxx US Infrastructure Development Index, invests in companies that are expected to benefit from increased infrastructure investment in the US. This includes companies involved in the ...

QIC backs startup investor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... in cybersecurity, customer experience, and productivity and automation. Tidal partners with "disruptive early-stage companies" that want to transform their industries on a global scale. It's led by co-founders Murray Bleach, formerly Macquarie's ...

Clearway wins distribution mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... include Japan, China, and India. Matthews International portfolio manager Vivek Tanneeru said emerging market small companies offer potentially attractive diversification opportunities for investors currently allocated to strategies more focused on large ...

Australian Ethical updates investment guide

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... projects they value both individually and collaboratively. The negative factors it will now consider include the way companies may produce products that are harmful to human health, discriminate or restrict human rights, cause animal suffering, mislead ...

Ironbark partners with HarbourVest to launch fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... to date, primarily with institutional clients including superannuation funds, endowments, universities and insurance companies," HarbourVest managing director and head of Sydney office Warwick Mancini said. "This growth has accelerated in recent years ...

APRA warns entities on adequacy of backup systems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... Finally, APRA said it has observed insufficient testing of capability to recover systems and data from backups. It warned companies should ensure the backup coverage is sufficient to enable the recovery of critical business operations, as well as technical ...

ASIC tells super funds to 'step it up'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... Simone Constant gave a stern warning to Australian superannuation funds. Constant said financial reporting of listed companies was falling short of expectations and warned super funds not to run the same risk. "Some of our recent work shows that in some ...