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Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... against ESG, particularly in the US. At the RIAA conference held in Melbourne earlier this month, investment and political science experts discussed whether this could occur here in Australia, and what this means for Australian investors. FS Sustainability ...

Nuveen wins $190m super mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... targets office assets based in US cities operating mainly in the healthcare and technology sectors. Medical office, life science, technology R&D and studio-production are some of the sectors Nuveen said are best positioned for demographic and structural ...

Kilter Rural launches $500m agriculture fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
... that suffers a lot of 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 ...

Former adviser jailed for nine years

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
Former financial adviser Gavin Fineff has been sentenced to nine years in prison after a court determined he defrauded 12 clients $3.36 million. Fineff, who was working as a representative for Sentinel Wealth when the crimes took place, defrauded clients ...

Taskforce exposes rising dangers for retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... and supervision efforts. Developing technological tools, utilising advanced data analytics, and employing behavioural science to analyse retail behaviour can help facilitate earlier intervention and identification of bad actors, the report said. Further ...

The unique experience of a single woman

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... climate like today." On the flip side, it's important to point out that London School of Economics (LSE) behavioural science professor Paul Dolan completed a study that showed unmarried single women who don't have children live longer, healthier ...

HSBC bails out Silicon Valley Bank UK

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
... banking franchise and enhances our ability to serve innovative and fast-growing firms, including in the technology and life-science sectors, in the UK and internationally," HSBC Group chief executive Noel Quinn explained. As of 10 March 2023, SVB UK ...

Bravura restructures operating model, makes new appointments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2023
Bravura's executive team has instituted an organisational change program to reconfigure its operating model, shifting some leadership roles. The program, led by Bravura chief executive Libby Roy, will focus on establishing a product framework that supports ...

HESTA, ISPT, UniSuper to build UNSW hub

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
A consortium comprising HESTA, ISPT, Plenary and UniSuper are investing $600 million to develop the University of New South Wales' (UNSW) Health Translation Hub. The new 15-storey health education and research building, located in Randwick, will ...

Climate skills development needed: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... building, and in some of the overseas research they identified a need for a baseline level of understanding of climate science to be able to assess climate risk. Perhaps we do need some kind of skills and competencies framework to be able to assess what ...