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Colonial First State launches sustainable growth fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
Colonial First State (CFS) says its new sustainable growth fund has been designed to remove barriers to investing sustainably. The product, Thrive+, was developed after CFS commissioned a study of nearly 5000 Australians and found that of the respondents ...

Australia among top 10 financially inclusive markets: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022
Australia has been ranked the seventh most financially inclusive market out of 42 around the globe. Principal Financial Group's Global Financial Inclusion Index, conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, is built around three pillars ...

Equipsuper restructures investment team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2022
Equipsuper has made three senior hires after revisiting its investment strategies and team structure. Jessie Pettigrew joined Equip as head of responsible investments; she has more than 10 years of experience in sustainability and responsible investment. ...

New SSGA chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
State Street Corporation has appointed Yie-Hsin Hung as president and chief executive of its asset management arm, State Street Global Advisors. Hung will join in December and sit on the executive committee, reporting to State Street chair and chief ...

Karen Phin retires from Magellan board

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2022
The independent non-executive director has flagged her intention to retire from the Magellan board at the conclusion of the company's annual general meeting on October 20. A seasoned executive with over 25 years' experience in the financial ...

UniSuper caps future investment in fossil fuels

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2022
The board of UniSuper has imposed a cap on fossil fuel exposure of 7% and has divested from companies that generate more than 10% of revenue from the extraction and production of thermal coal. UniSuper has issued its fifth annual climate risk report ...

NZ Super shifts $25bn to low carbon indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
The NZ Super Fund has shifted about 40% of its overall portfolio to low carbon indices, in a move that will "significantly reduce" the number of listed companies the fund owns directly. The NZ$57 billion fund began to roll over its indices to the MSCI ...

Active Super reaffirms commitment to regional members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2022
Home to more than 12% of its members, Active Super has opened a new office to service Newcastle and the Central Coast, with chief executive Phil Stockwell saying the importance of regional and rural New South Wales to the fund can't be downplayed. ...

Super giants, investment firms join Future IM/Pact

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
UniSuper, Aware Super, Pinnacle Investment Management and TDM Growth Partners are the latest to sign up to the program founded by Yolanda Beattie in 2018. Future IM/Pact is a movement that recruits and fosters young women in Australia's investment sector. ...

Mining vital to low carbon solutions: Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
Despite its disruptive nature to the societies and ecosystems where it operates, a Fidelity report claims mining will play a central role in decarbonisation. Fidelity said, although discourse about investors' role in helping fund clean technologies ...