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VicSuper launches ESG member option

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... which avoids investments in companies holding fossil fuel reserves for energy purposes; companies materially involved in tobacco, alcohol, gambling, firearms, pornography and genetically modified organisms; and companies that have involvements in "severe ...

Investors torn over ESG capabilities

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... meet a number of conditions including: 1. Exclude companies that derive more than 20% of revenues from coal, gambling, tobacco or pornography. 2. Hold a portfolio with 25% less carbon intensity than the S&P/ASX 200. 3. Ensure that the portfolio demonstrates ...

Mercer wins university investment mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... anti-personnel mines and biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. It will also avoid companies with material exposure to tobacco, alcohol, gambling or gaming, adult entertainment and thermal coal, and will target companies with innovative solutions to ...

AMP Capital awards historic $17bn passive mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... Capital said it was purging its entire portfolio of "dangerous or unethical investments," including companies involved in tobacco, cluster munitions and landmines. Collectively, this represented about $570 million in divestments. "It's important to note ...

The challenging nature of ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... Executive Women 2017 Leadership Conference that the challenge of developing the Banking and Finance Oath and campaigning for tobacco-free investment is not unlike her time as a swimmer. As founder of the Banking and Finance Oath, Payne explained how ...

Aussie investors push tobacco exclusions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
A global active fund manager says Australia is at the forefront of the shift towards ex-tobacco investment portfolios. Vontobel Asset Management global equities portfolio manager Ramiz Chelat said majority of the firm's assets in Australian mandates ...

Responsible investing demand unstoppable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... Investment Association Australasia. AMP Capital is a case in point, recently announcing it will divest about $440 million of tobacco manufacturing-related equity and fixed income, and about $130 million in manufacturers of cluster munition and landmine ...

Space and biblical indexes launched

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... biblically responsible investing. It limits portfolio exposures to practices related to abortion, pornography, alcohol, tobacco, gambling and anti-family entertaining. The Space Index, which tracks the performance of companies primarily engaged in the ...

AMP Capital overhauls ESG investment strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) decision-making framework across the business. This involves excluding investments in tobacco, cluster munitions, landmines, biological and chemical weapons manufacturers that do not meet the minimum ethical ...

Prospectus lodged for ethically screened LIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... exclude companies involved in environmental destruction, including coal and uranium mining, oil and gas, animal cruelty, tobacco and alcohol, armaments, gambling and rainforest or old growth logging. Since inception in August 2012, MGOF has earned investors ...