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Pax fined for SRI breach

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... them from buying as the investments would have been in companies involved with producing weapons, alcohol, tobacco or gambling products. For example, in 2004, for Pax World's High Yield fund, the group bought shares in a shipping company that derived ...

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... equities that receive "significant" revenues from the production of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, military weapons or gambling related business. However, similar to the philosophy behind the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) ...

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... power. It will also employ Hunter Hall's existing screens to avoid companies that derive revenue from armaments, tobacco, gambling, cruelty to animals, destruction of the environment and uranium mining. The fund's main investment focus will be renewable ...

Rate reprieve scratch during Cup Carnival?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
... rise of 3.1 per cent year to date, where expectation was for a rise averaging only 0.8 per cent. While many have been gambling on a Reserve Bank reluctance to raise interest rates during the election, Reserve bank Governor Glenn Stevens recently reiterated ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

... have mandates with, they would short the shares that didn't pass the fund's SRI policies. Any companies with a whiff of gambling, uranium mining, logging old-growth forests and armaments businesses are out. "The normal assumption of fund managers and ...

Marketwrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... average was up 247.44 points at 13,289.29, while the Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 31.40 points at 1,463.76. Locally, gambling shares have lost ground given concerns horse flu will see some horse racing suspended, with Tattersall's down 25 cents ...

Ethical by name and nature

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... investing in funds that claim to be ethical and responsible as some invest in tobacco, uranium mining and companies with a gambling business. It added that the terms 'responsible' and 'ethical' were too ambiguous. David Buckland, executive director at ...

Virtual bank collapse a warning to online world

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
... closed after depositors rushed to withdraw money and exit the game as a result of creators Linden Lab banning "in-world" gambling. However, Luke Connell, Melbourne-based founder of the game's largest stock exchange, the World Stock Exchange (WSE), said ...

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... The ACT Government superannuation fund has investments in tobacco firms, arms manufacturers, uranium producers and the gambling industry, it has been revealed. A list of stocks that the government super fund holds that was released by ACT Treasury revealed ...

LGSS reaps $6m from SRI

... climate change and the requirements of the Kyoto protocol," said Woods. To date, LGSS has shorted companies engaged in gambling, armaments, uranium mining, logging old-growth forests and those that have poor workplace practices. "Next year we intend ...