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Super fund merger prompts investment changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... from 75%/25% to 70%/30%. Spirit Super said that the merger will also bring changes to responsible investing and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, including updates to exclusion policies. The fund's current exclusion policy ...

BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas back carbon credits fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... projects by replanting cleared areas while ensuring the land remains productive for farming. "These high-integrity environmental planting projects combine robust carbon credit methodologies with ongoing farming activities that benefit local communities ...

Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... co-founder Tim Bishop welcomed Kean to the Wollemi team. "Matt has been in the room with national and global political, environmental, and business leaders. He knows how to get things done whilst standing by his values and the environment," Bishop said. ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
The fund's Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option returned a dismal -15.96% in FY24, but chief investment officer John Pearce says the growth themes remain intact, adding it's on a more solid footing than in FY21 when returns soared ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
... members' best financial interests, to provide a financial return, with a secondary aim of generating social and or environmental return. This is Rest's second private equity impact investment, following its commitment to a pooled buyout fund run by European ...

Robeco launches two new strategies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... broader Transition Asian Equities strategy also focuses on climate transition but takes into consideration other environmental and social objectives at the same time. Robeco's transition strategies are available to Australian institutional investors ...

Vision Super in hot water over coal investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
... Whitehaven Coal stocks after walking back its fossil fuel exclusion policy last year. The super fund changed its environmental, social and governance policy, removing its revenue-based coal, oil and gas investment restrictions and replacing them with ...

Super leaders take out King's Birthday honours

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
... justice, gender equity, sporting, cultural, and business sectors as well as for her contributions to reconciliation and environmental sustainability. Aside from chairing Aware Super and Alberts Music Group, she worked at senior levels in telecommunications ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
Active Super has been found guilty of misleading the public with false claims about its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials. The profit-to-member fund, which is set to merge with Vision Super in March 2025, made claims on its website ...

Liberals respond to Federal Budget

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... short term. To support this, he proposed unlocking gas reserves in key areas like the Beetaloo Basin, defunding the Environmental Defenders Office, which he claims is obstructing important projects, and committing to an annual release of offshore acreage ...