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FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... more expensive than retail cover. Group insurance would then lose its main selling point: its low cost. Fossil fuel divestment and screening Climate change was squarely back on the global political agenda in 2014, with the US and China - the world's ...

HESTA takes stand against thermal coal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... fund HESTA has begun restricting its investments in thermal coal, becoming the latest fund to move towards fossil fuel divestment. Under the new policy, HESTA will not make new investments in unlisted companies that derive more than 15% of revenue or ...

Hunter Hall divests from fossil fuels

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... enables Hunter Hall to focus on a future with new opportunities. "After observing the gathering momentum of fossil fuel divestment campaigns and consulting a number of our supporters, it is clear climate change is an important issue to many retail and ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... anti-fossil fuel campaigning, such as the "Go Fossil Free" campaign, institutions have overwhelmingly avoided fossil fuel divestment. "Divestment from the Australian fossil fuels industry significantly increases investment concentration and risk. Also ...

Fossil fuel companies to be rendered 'worthless': IMPAX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... return effect," said a recently published IMPAX whitepaper, Beyond Fossil Fuels: The Investment Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment. "Furthermore, much of the economic effect of excluding fossil fuel stocks could have been replicated with 'fossil free' energy ...
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