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Pension funds apply pressure on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... System. The letter was also signed by a number of not for profit organisations and individuals. It comes after the US Department of Labor sought to restrict the rules on how pension funds invest so that they would "not too readily treat ESG factors as ...

US considers restricting ESG in pensions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
The US Department of Labor (DOL) is considering imposing strict rules on how pension funds invest, which could see the scope for ethical and responsible investing limited. The DOL has proposed an amendment to the Employee Retirement Income Security ...

Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The US Department of Financial Services (DFS) has hit Deutsche Bank with a US$150 million penalty for the bank's relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. This marks the first enforcement action by a regulator against a financial institution ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... All of Metropolitan Melbourne will be back in lockdown before the clock strikes midnight tonight. Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services advises that from 11:59pm, 8 July 2020, Melburnians will only be allowed to leave home for four reasons ...

Perpetual wins government fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... emerging markets with a commitment to investing for environmental, social and governance impact as well as for profit," Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement. Perpetual Corporate Trust general manager Glen Dogan said: "We are seeing ...

Super funds merge, board revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... Gabrielle Bell - nominated by the Victorian Public Sector Commission, Patricia Faulkner - nominated by the Victorian Department of Education and Training, Antoinette Masiero - nominated by the Australian Education Union and Travis Bates - nominated by ...

First Nations Foundation gets COVID-19 funding

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... funding to deliver COVID-19 support to women. The foundation was one of only four recipients of this funding from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It has designed an online educational series in collaboration with Indigenous financial experts ...

Impact investing set to skyrocket: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... harm," O'Connor said. Conducted by the Deakin University Business School and supported by AMP Capital and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the report charts the composition, growth and performance of the impact investment industry ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Beijing's beef with Canberra persist. Sadly, Australia would hurt more than it would hurt China. Data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) show China accounted for 30.6% of Australia's total exports in fiscal year 2017/18 ...

AFSL pleads guilty to mishandling client money

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... licence conditions imposed by ASIC on the PSAL AFS licence. "We have fully cooperated with ASIC and the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions in their inquiries, and we take full responsibility for these unintentional breaches of our compliance ...