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| | | ... the NSW stamp duty. "Insurance isn't a sin. They shouldn't be able to tax insurance at the same rate they do alcohol, or tobacco or gambling," said Pettersen. "The Victorian bushfires have made it very clear just how bad the situation has become, and ... |
| | | | ... energy. Negative screening excludes companies that are involved in practices that adversely affect the community such as tobacco, and in some cases, uranium. The third approach is a combination of both screens. The Lonsec report found those funds with ... |
| | | | ... prohibited them from buying as the investments would have been in companies involved with producing weapons, alcohol, tobacco or gambling products. For example, in 2004, for Pax World's High Yield fund, the group bought shares in a shipping company that ... |
| | | | ... to avoid investing in company equities that receive "significant" revenues from the production of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, military weapons or gambling related business. However, similar to the philosophy behind the United Nations Principles for ... |
| | | | Christian Super has distanced itself from other Australian super funds that invest in tobacco companies after a survey found super fund members wanted them to avoid the tobacco industry. A survey conducted by the Cancer Council of NSW and the University ... |
| | | | ... nuclear power. It will also employ Hunter Hall's existing screens to avoid companies that derive revenue from armaments, tobacco, gambling, cruelty to animals, destruction of the environment and uranium mining. The fund's main investment focus will be ... |
| | | | The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has stripped its portfolio of $37.6 million worth of tobacco shares after an environmental, social and governance (ESG) review of the fund's investments. The tobacco stocks represented only 0.29 per cent of the fund's ... |
| | | | ... investors to read the 'small print' when investing in funds that claim to be ethical and responsible as some invest in tobacco, uranium mining and companies with a gambling business. It added that the terms 'responsible' and 'ethical' were too ambiguous. ... |
| | | | ... as falls in recent gainers, such as Sony Corp, on fears of a sell-off in Chinese stocks were offset by gains in Japan Tobacco Inc after a Merrill Lynch upgrade and a rebound in auto stocks. The Nikkei inched down 0.05 per cent, or 8.15 points, at 17,696.97. ... |
| | | | ... investors, said McKinsey & Co in a report to clients. "Early approaches simplistically screened out 'sin sectors' such as tobacco. Subsequent evolutions tilted toward rewarding good performers, largely in the extraction industries, on the basis of often ... |
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