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HESTA investment committee chair to depart

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
HESTA investment committee chair and independent director Mark Burgess will step down from the board at the end of June following six years in the role. As his term comes to an end, the fund's chief executive Debby Blakey said Burgess oversaw a period ...

AGL abandons demerger, leadership resigns

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... confidence that a 75% approval would be gained when it went to vote on June 15. Several shareholders, including Grok Ventures and HESTA, had confirmed they would oppose the demerger as it wouldn't support climate change goals. HESTA welcomed the ...

Aware Super leads on climate action: IGCC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
... Rainmaker found that the "power hitters" in the ESG space include Australian Ethical, Cbus, AustralianSuper, Aware Super, HESTA, Active Super and UniSuper. Yet too many are not transparent with their ESG initiatives or are waiting for the regulator to ...

Super leaders recognised

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... significant service to the finance and superannuation sectors, and to suicide prevention. Emslie has spent nearly 30 years at HESTA as a trustee director, independent chair and more recently an independent member of the impact committee. She is currently ...

Future Super, Verve accused of misleading members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... suggested that the ETFs Future Super invests in contain underlying assets that might not live up to the kind of environmental impact consumers think they are having. Wilson also asked why Future Super has 12 people employed full-time to allocate investment ...

Industry fund called out over board diversity initiatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... 25 to 34 years old. Nearly half (45%) of HESTA's member pool are aged between 25 and 44 years old. In comparison to HESTA, Leigh said, it has a deliberate strategy for gender diversity, while Rest's approach is a stark contrast. By 2030, HESTA ...

Damning Rio report to shake mining industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... four thousand-year-old human hair belt that linked the site directly to the ancestors of the current traditional owners." HESTA, the $56 billion industry fund for health and community services, was one of the first investors to welcome the report. "The ...

Former HESTA chair joins Assemble

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... Trustees, Frontier Advisors, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and serves as an expert advisor on the HESTA Impact Committee. She is also chair of Suicide Prevention Australia, where she is an advocate for national leadership in suicide prevention. ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... now." The data also showed funds catering predominantly to essential services are also seeing withdrawals. For example, HESTA - the membership of which is comprised of a significant number of healthcare and aged care workers - saw more than $230 million ...

Industry fund takes aim at asset manager diversity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... than just talking about it. We want our actions to help drive long-term, meaningful change. It's what we call the HESTA impact." The move follows Blakey writing a letter to all companies in the ASX 200 in July last year, urging each to set specific targets ...
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