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Advisers should engage clients on health

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... future social and economic well-being," she said. ANPHA research says the biggest health burden to the nation comes from tobacco, alcohol, dietary factors and physical inactivity. "Substantial effort and leadership is underway to reduce the heavy risk ...

Australian Ethical MySuper option approved

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... technology and medical breakthroughs. It will not invest in companies exposed to industries and issues such as coal, oil, tobacco, gambling and child labour. "We see the members of our MySuper option including employees in socially or environmentally ...

NGS Super rethinks ESG as green option flops

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
NGS Super is launching a new socially responsible investment option that will screen out tobacco, armaments and pornography, after its green shares option failed to attract sufficient interest. NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said that ...

Cbus to divest tobacco holdings as stocks fall from highs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Cbus Super will divest its holdings in tobacco companies in the interest of members and their long-term investment returns. The super fund has written to fund managers to instruct them to divest tobacco holdings immediately. Where Cbus invests through ...

Can cheap, high quality stocks can still be found?

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... which have not been bid up by the market in the race for income producing, defensive assets. "The likes of the utilities, tobacco and telco companies have performed strongly since the onset of the financial crisis but these areas are now overbought," ...

Taxes, levies and fees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013

Smokers' cough up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013

State Street wins $780m LGS mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... governance investment principles and will exclude stocks from industries such as uranium mining, gambling, armaments and tobacco." LGS has gained the reputation of being an ethically and environmentally responsible investor, having won the 'Best Green ...

Australian Islamic finance presents opportunities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... products. Shariah compliant funds have strict ethical guideline and are not allowed to invest in any asset associated with tobacco, alcohol, weapons, gambling, pork or adult material. Its Principles focus on profit and loss sharing and forbid the collection ...

CBUS investments in CMFEU sights

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... with the builder. Union protests against the fund mirror similar calls last month against the Future Fund to selldown its tobacco stock holdings, plus media scrutiny against UniSuper in December last year following concerns at the time their defined ...