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ASX-listed firm invests with Osmosis

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... generated greater than 5%. It also excludes companies that generate revenue from controversial weapons, civilian firearms, tobacco manufacturing, as well as those that breach the UN Global Compact Principles. Further, the fund aims to protect investors ...

Inflation eases in July

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... significant contributors to the annual rise were housing (+4%), food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.8%), alcohol and tobacco (+7.2%), and transport (+3.4%). "CPI inflation is often impacted by items with volatile price changes like in automotive fuel ...

NZSF returns 17%, smashes benchmarks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... Finance Framework. The list includes several weapons manufacturers such as Elbit, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell, as well as tobacco companies like British American Tobacco and Philip Morris. "We exclude companies either because of the product they make ...

Boutique ESG fund manager folds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
... applies a negative screen on ASX-listed companies that have first derivative exposure to fossil fuels, alcohol, gambling, tobacco, uranium, weapons, and predatory lending. A first derivative exposure means the direct or primary owned production or sale ...

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... use of sustainable investment screens provided a performance boost for both products, with neither invested in gambling, tobacco or weapons companies. For instance, the group pointed out, Australia's energy sector significantly underperformed the ASX ...

Inflation spikes again sparking rate rise fears

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
... up from 4.1% recorded in April. The most significant price rises in the month of May were housing (+5.2%), alcohol and tobacco (+6.7%), transport (+4.9%) and food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.3%).

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... suggests that the claims that there was, for example, 'No way' Active Super would invest members funds in gambling, tobacco and so on, was to be read subject to a proviso that there was a way in which it would do exactly that, by investing indirectly ...

Australian Retirement Trust applies new investment exclusion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... exclusions when directly investing in Australian and international share asset classes across all its investment options, being tobacco, cluster munitions and land mines. From July 1, this list of exclusions will be expanded to include companies that ...

Two new ETFs for Franklin Templeton

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
... fund does not invest in securities issued by companies that are directly involved in producing controversial weapons, tobacco products, and mining or extracting thermal coal, or extracting oil from tar sands subject to a 10% revenue threshold. The Franklin ...

ASIC wins greenwashing case against Vanguard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... Funds. ASIC noted that the Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Funds excluded certain investments in tobacco, but "while this screen applied to exclude manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products, it did not exclude companies ...