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Norway pension enlists RI researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... European responsible investment house, GES Investment Services, to screen its fixed income and equities portfolios for tobacco and weapons criteria. The research mandate means GES will screen the fund's portfolios for companies that may be involved in ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance is excluding the $518 billion Government Pension Fund Global from investing in 17 tobacco companies including British American Tobacco, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco. The Ministry of Finance drafted rules states the ...

US firm launches religious ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... governance (ESG) issues in investments. The investment products exclude companies that benefit from gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, weaponry and other specific issues. In addition to providing religious investors with more investment choice ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... little movement on Tuesday. London's FTSE 100 fell 4.63 points, or 0.09 per cent, to close at 5,230.55 points. Imperial Tobacco rose 2.30 per cent after reporting a solid profit performance this year, while Barclays Bank lost 5.10 per cent after disclosing ...

AMP wins Asset Super mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... year. The Asset Socially Responsible investment option excludes investments that involve armaments, liquor, gambling or tobacco. Maple Brown Abbott had been using a positive screen for investments across Australian equities and property but without any ...

QSuper bulks senior investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... Credit Suisse Financial Products. Herbert Chang has over 19 years experience in corporate treasury and finance in the food, tobacco, oil, and gas industries. Prior to joining QSuper, Chang was the Asia Pacific treasurer for Philip Morris and he managed ...

AIST chair set sights on UN PRI board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... implementing responsible investment policies into the fund. This push resulted in the fund committing to never invest in tobacco shares and led to the fund introducing a sustainable investment overlay into the fund's $2 billion Australian equities portfolio. ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... of males still regularly smoke. Because supporting such a widespread habit requires a huge national infrastructure of tobacco growing and cigarette manufacturing, fears have grown that slowing economic conditions could cause Chinese smokers to cut back ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Darling announced that the Treasury would raise taxes on people earning 100,000 per year and increase duties on alcohol, tobacco and petrol to pay for its surplus of spending over revenues estimated to reach 703 billion over the next five years. This ...

Norway SWF adopts ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... other international initiatives. Central new measures that the Government is intending to introduce include exclusion of tobacco-producing companies from the portfolio, incorporating new requirements concerning transparency and reporting linked to the ...