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Fraser and Hewson support ANU's right to divest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... doubt, that of ANU. "The ANU council's decision to broaden the scope of companies that they will not invest in beyond tobacco is consistent with the approach of a growing number of investors around the world including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... investable universe. However, Lambert said that there is scope to lower the acceptable threshold, as it has done with tobacco. The new policy is effective immediately. Lambert said a couple of LGS' managers are ready to implement the policy. For those ...

Get ready for activist members, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... company engagement, management engagement, and negative screening. "We do have exclusions on a number of specific sectors - tobacco, cluster bombs. However, we're not sure that divestment changes or addresses the problem. Hence we actively engage with ...

Activist Simon Sheikh launches fossil fuel free super fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Association of Australia to the leadership team. Aside from fossil fuels, the fund also screens out companies related to tobacco, gambling, live animal exports and armaments. Future Super said it also has positive screens which ensure it "actively invests ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... last March's figure and both at five-year lows. Take out the prices of volatile components - food, energy, alcohol and tobacco - and the song remains the same. Core consumer price inflation slowed to 0.7% in May from 1.0% in April. Strip out only energy ...

Super isn't working for us, say baby boomers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... retirement was travel, followed by volunteer work. Under tighter circumstances, they were most prepared to give up alcohol, tobacco and new clothing, and least prepared to give up dining out and health insurance.

Hunter Hall divests from fossil fuels

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... resources-heavy ASX 200. Hunter Hall joins Australian Ethical as a stringent screener of fossil fuels. Hunter Hall also screens tobacco, gambling, armaments, uranium, nuclear energy, cutting down old growth forests and intensive animal husbandry. The ...

AMP Capital introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... a material exposure to activities that have a high negative social impact including the production and manufacture of tobacco, nuclear power (including uranium), armaments, alcohol, pornography and gambling. "Increasingly, responsible investors also ...

Northern Trust wins LUCRF $220m ESG mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... Limited, incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into an index strategy. The mandate excludes tobacco companies and cluster munitions manufacturers and uses an optimised approach to portfolio construction. It aims to achieve "similar ...

Hunter Hall appoints head of retail sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... companies that have a "direct and material business involvement in the manufacture or sale of weapons and weapons components, tobacco manufacture, gambling outlets or systems, intensive animal farming, animal testing for cosmetics, activities that give ...