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EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... very good," he said. But for the ethical or sustainable investor, emerging markets remain a hard gate to open as human rights issues and un-democratic political governance models still present stumbling blocks. EMs such as China and India have made headways ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... their firm generally avoided investing in countries including Russia and China. However, it was hard to use possible human rights abuses, a core tenet of SRI investing, as a reason not to look at BRIC markets. "The world's largest economy, the United ...

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... nations, countries developing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction, countries that systematically abuse human rights and will not invest in nuclear power. It will also employ Hunter Hall's existing screens to avoid companies that derive revenue ...

NZ Super Fund defends Myanmar investment

... guidelines include the United Nations Global Compact principles as a key standard against which to monitor companies on human rights practices. The fund's investments in Total S.A. account for around 0.1 per cent of the total Fund. Michelle Baltazar

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... investments in weapons producers Textron and Raytheon, which produce cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are abhorred by human rights groups which claim they kill more civilians than soldiers. The fund also has small investments in some of the worlds largest ...

Gender pay equity in banking getting worse: FSU

... paid to full time, non-managerial employees. Jo Tilly, acting director of the sex and discrimination unit at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, said the gender wage gap in the finance and insurance sector (at 23 percentage points) was ...

UN signs up $6 trillion to responsible investing

... factor those issues into their decision making. "This leaves room for corporate scandal, environmental degradation and human rights abuses - all of which can affect both a company's bottom line and its share price," said Gardener. Knut N Kjaer, executive ...

Super is not all about Eve

... aware of their super fund," said max Super's CEO, Andrew Barlow. According to research conducted by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the gap between men's and women's super starts to widen at age 25, with one in six 35-44 ...

Asset Super Board looks to Steer straight ahead

... to take the place of former speaker of the NSW Upper House John Johnson. Steer's experience has mainly been in the human rights and social justice arenas having worked for the Australian High Commission in India and also the United Nations in New York. ...

Westpac tops list in corporate responsibility: survey

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2004
... management practice, performance and impact, and assurance. Sub-areas examined include environmental risk management, human rights and \"living your values\". St James Ethics Centre\'s executive director Simon Longstaff, said more work needs to be done ...

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Australian Retirement Trust people chief to depart

ELIZABETH FRY
Australian Retirement Trust has confirmed the departure of chief people officer Helen Jackson, who will leave at the end of the financial year.

SSGA loses $2.4bn in two months

KARREN VERGARA
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) suffered $2.4 billion in net outflows over the last two months of 2023, the majority of which hit its Australian and international equities products.

AFCA seeks industry feedback on approaches

ELIZA BAVIN
The financial complaints authority is asking the industry for feedback on how it approaches issues and reaches decisions.

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Apex Group and ACA Group have formed a partnership to offer their clients a wider range of services.

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