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LUCRF divests $5 million of cluster munition and tobacco

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
LUCRF Super has approved the negative screening and divestment of cluster munition manufacturers and tobacco companies from its investment portfolios. The fund said that it held $4.5 million in cluster munition stocks and $522,000 in tobacco as of January ...

Industry resists full portfolio disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... the usefulness to members. It recommended that members who had ethical concerns about a super fund's holdings, such as tobacco or gambling companies, should have the right to request that information rather than forcing funds to publish it as a matter ...

CBA: Expect higher inflation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... rises in school fees; an attempt at all levels of Government to raise additional revenue -- resulting in big increases in tobacco excise, for example; and a spate of natural disasters putting upward pressure on insurance prices. Blythe advised company ...

VicSuper grants $250 million mandate to AllianceBernstein

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013

How green are 'green funds'?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... its now-defunct Green Shares option. HESTA, in its 'Eco Pool' option, only excludes companies with uranium mining and tobacco operations, leaving it free to invest in 'best of sector' fossil fuel miners. Local Government Super (LGS), a fund known for ...

SSgA awarded VicSuper ESG mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... alongside a proprietary dynamic alpha model. The portfolio will specifically exclude companies involved in the manufacture of tobacco products and incorporate a focus on risk management. "SSgA is excited to be working on this new active mandate with ...

Responsible investment takes centre stage at ASFA conference

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... continued Robertson's theme of moral "megatrends", using the example of the growing public demand for super funds to divest in tobacco companies. "It is a matter for each fund how they respond to tobacco investment, but this is just one area where you ...

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... standards finally come in. Even those funds with ethical or environmentally-focused options, while they screen out holdings in tobacco, armaments and uranium mining, rarely have a policy on fossil fuels. NGS Super, for example, in its Green Shares option ...

LGS appoints former CFS GAM exec to board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... centre of its investment policy, avoiding companies which have a 'material' (i.e. more than 10%) exposure to areas such as tobacco, gambling, armaments and uranium mining.

Former UniSuper CEO joins UCA FM board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... ethical guidelines of the Uniting Church in Australia. It avoids investing in companies directly involved in areas such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, uranium mining. Among the excluded companies are BHP Billiton, excluded for its uranium mining operations ...