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GREENWASHING
Funds management
While some fund managers overstate their ESG credentials and others remove their sustainable outcomes entirely, it is transparent communication that will be critical to a...
People & Products
Fidelity has promoted Jenn-Hui Tan to the newly created role of chief sustainability officer. ...
Superannuation
The corporate regulator has commenced its third civil penalty proceedings for alleged greenwashing with the superannuation fund holding investments in Russia when it had ...
Funds management
ASIC has lodged civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Vanguard Investments Australia for alleged greenwashing, having previously issued the asset manager...
Funds management
ASIC is looking to make examples of firms when it comes to greenwashing and taking a forthright position when asking them for changes, according to two lawyers who have d...
Financial planning
EXCLUSIVE As clients increasingly seek sustainability-related products and funds, advisers who recommend them could eventually fall under the greenwashing purview of regu...
Funds management
ASIC is unlikely to slow its pace on greenwashing enforcement, according to deputy chair Karen Chester, or it will run the risk of making Australia a target for misconduc...
Superannuation
Future Super has received an infringement notice from ASIC over alleged greenwashing, this time related to a social media post by the fund, following earlier action again...
Funds management
The global asset manager has received a formal warning from the New Zealand financial regulator after failing to disclose earlier ASIC infringement notices as required un...
Policy & Regulation
ASIC is to receive an extra $4.3 million from the government to crack down on businesses making misleading sustainability claims as part of plans for an Australian Sustai...
Policy & Regulation
CFA Societies Australia is urging asset managers to adopt its voluntary global ESG disclosure standards in a step towards uniformity and transparency for investors....
Funds management
A few days after being fined by ASIC over alleged greenwashing, Vanguard has exited the global Net Zero Asset Managers alliance....
Funds management
Vanguard has received three infringement notices from ASIC over alleged greenwashing regarding overstating investment screens intended to prevent investment in tobacco sa...
Funds management
Greenwashing is a resounding theme for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investors, specifically the regulatory action directed at fund classifications, a Barcla...
Funds management
There are nine questions that fund managers need to ask themselves when launching a fund in order to prevent greenwashing, according to ASIC....
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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...