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Policy & Regulation

In a tense exchange with APRA representatives, Senator Matt Canavan questioned if the regulator’s climate vulnerability assessments were ‘a complete waste of money’. ...

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Policy & Regulation

In a tense exchange with APRA representatives, Senator Matt Canavan questioned if the regulator’s climate vulnerability assessments were ‘a complete waste of money’. ...

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Funds management

Amid growing ESG regulation around the world, new research foresees interest in disclosure obligations and fund names and classifications to rise further in the coming ye...

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Funds management

An assessment of the largest 197 companies on four major stock exchanges found Australian companies’ reports were less transparent than those from Europe and Asia....

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Funds management

The Government is today releasing a consultation paper on developing an Australian climate risk disclosure framework which could see financial institutions required to pr...

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Funds management

A few days after being fined by ASIC over alleged greenwashing, Vanguard has exited the global Net Zero Asset Managers alliance....

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Policy & Regulation

Climate change is likely to become a larger part of financial regulation with APRA seeking multiple analysts for a climate risk team. ...

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Funds management

About 90% of global gross domestic product is covered by net-zero commitments, according to BNP Paribas Asset Management, but many commitments are not concrete....

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Funds management

Market Forces say ANZ’s updated climate policy falls short in addressing climate change and likened it to “shuffling of the chairs on the Titanic”. ...

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Funds management

The investment manager established a taskforce last year to identify where the company could take steps to target net zero in each asset class....

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has outlined the purpose, design and scope of its climate vulnerability assessment to help regulated entities, including the largest banks, understand and m...

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Funds management

Global indices which exclude fossil fuels have outperformed those which include them but this is not the case for Australia thanks to companies such as Whitehaven Coal se...

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Funds management

The Amundi Responsible Investing: Just Transition for Climate fund will aim to support the energy transition to reduce carbon footprint....

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Funds management

Firms have reacted positively to the US rejoining the Paris Agreement this month, indicating it paves the way for the US to follow in the footsteps of other countries’ en...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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