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Hermes launches global quant equities ESG strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... companies which exhibit high ESG risk, or who derive significant revenue from armaments, logging, nuclear energy, gambling and tobacco. Peter Lambert, chief executive officer of LGS, said: "This is another step towards LGS developing and implementing ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Still smarting over a Senate Committee gruelling over its tobacco investments, the Future Fund - the largest fund in Australia - is being accused of insufficient transparency over climate-change risk mitigation within its portfolio. A FOI search two ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... robust performance by the Future Fund was undermined this week when its senior executives were forced to justify their tobacco investments before a Senate Committee. Appearing before the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Senate Committee ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... government will become the first government in Australia to specifically exclude its investment funds from investing into the tobacco and arms industries. The prohibition is expected to only marginally impact the investment strategy of the $2.3 billion ...

Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... investments. The Greens' 'responsible investment' push would force the Future Fund to pull out of profitable holdings in several Tobacco manufacturers, and those companies involved in the production and development of nuclear weapons. "Properly structuring ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... revealed in May that the Future Fund had invested $135 million in nuclear weapons manufacturers as well as $225 million in tobacco companies.

Retiree living costs match CPI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... the economic impacts of weather events, and in the long run, climate change. Rents, medical and hospital services and tobacco also recorded rises for the June quarter 2012, price segments that are also important to retirees. Conversely, retirees and ...

First State Super butts out tobacco

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
First State Super has excluded investments in all companies involved in the manufacture of tobacco products from its entire investment portfolio. The move builds on First State Super's exclusion of tobacco-related investments from socially responsible ...

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... implemented austerity measures that included reduction in pensions, increased sales taxes, excises on petrol, alcohol, tobacco and luxury items, tougher rules for disability benefit eligibility and the lifting of the age of retirement from 61 to 65. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... the wake of the Chinese trade figures. Investors were also poring over company results. In London, shares in Imperial Tobacco rallied 3.11 per cent to 2,224 pence after the maker of Lambert & Butler and Gauloises cigarettes beat earnings expectations ...