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The secret to super outperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... fund, now that statistic is up to 61%. The most popular fund-wide exclusions are tobacco and armaments, followed by fossil fuels. Retail funds were found by RIAA to offer consumers the widest variety of responsible investment options per-fund. There ...

Industry fund for coal miners on ESG journey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... exclude tobacco and cluster munitions from our investments, we don't exclude resources," Nair said. While excluding fossil fuels may not be practical for Mine Super, other ESG issues raised by the crowd attending iPARM brought unanimous responses ...

First green bond ETF listed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... issuer has fossil fuel reserves or infrastructure and are not involved in the mining, extraction or the burning of fossil fuels. The fund will also remove any issuers which are exposed to gambling, tobacco, animal cruelty, alcohol, pornography and human ...

Fossil fuel exposures climb at UniSuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
The $80 billion superannuation fund is more exposed to companies involved in fossil fuels than it was a year ago, according to its second annual climate risk disclosures released yesterday. At June end, UniSuper had 12% of its exposures in companies ...

NAB accused of greenwashing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... operators that they can rely on NAB's support beyond 2030, and having no plan in place to manage down exposure to other fossil fuels such as oil and gas, this is far from a responsible approach to minimise climate risk." Market Forces has also identified ...

BlackRock Australia rejigs multi-asset range

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019
... weapons. The fixed income allocations will have more comprehensive screening, accounting for nine areas including fossil fuels, alcohol, gambling, adult entertainment and civilian firearms. BlackRock said it is hard to quantify how much of the portfolio ...

AMP, HESTA, Hostplus lose out in ratings

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... Ethical with 4 out of 5. The Ethical Advisers' Co-op said they were impressed by Future Super's exclusions of fossil fuels, gambling, tobacco, armaments, nuclear, live animal exports, old growth logging, animal cruelty, bribery, intensive agriculture ...

Industry fund adds to investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... and products skills." The fund has already divested all tobacco holdings and is now considering its policy around fossil fuels, climate change, proxy voting, remuneration, gender equality and modern slavery. The hire takes the fund's investment team ...

Climate policy more than divesting: UniSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... the world was warming and climate change was indeed underway, the difficulty was in taking action. Divesting from fossil fuels, for example, just "passes the parcel". "The efficacy of divesting is pretty much zero," he said. Pearce recalled occasions ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... two launched earlier this year. Benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-fossil fuels index, the iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund is designed to allow investors to gain exposure to global fixed income securities ...