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Chief economist update: Australia burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... between the US and Iran. A US airstrike in Iraq on January 4 killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds military force and one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic. This prompted the Iranian government to announce that ...

Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... the high-profile news story helped precipitate new laws protecting the rights of women and homosexuals in the British military (the US followed suit). Siddique received a standing ovation for her speech where she spoke about her own personal struggles ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... exposure to global fixed income securities while excluding issuers across eight core filters: tobacco, alcohol, gambling, military weapons, civilian firearms, nuclear power, adult entertainment and genetically modified organisms. An additional full fossil ...

Industry Super Holdings slammed for weapons investment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... industry superannuation funds, as a major investor in Electro Optic Systems (EOS), an ASX-listed firm operating in the military and space sectors. ISH, which is owned by a number of industry funds (one of which is AustralianSuper), is the parent company ...

BlackRock launches Australian bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... Bloomberg Barclays MSCI SRI ESG-Weighted Australian Aggregate AU$100M Index. It excludes tobacco, alcohol, gambling, military weapons, civil firearms, nuclear power, adult entertainment, genetically modified organisms and fossil fuel reserves using MSCI's ...

Former ambassador assesses US-China trade deal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... capital and trade and movement of people. The second dynamic is that the global strategic order dominated by US's military and economic power is now being destabalised. "The third, the weakness is that the weakness in western political institutions ...

Advisory and wealth firm appoints chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... of firms in the network. Chapman is now the chief operating officer of ASX-listed firm CountPlus. He is also a former military leader with the British Army and served in the Australian Army. Sacre's 25 years' experience in banking and financial ...

VanEck ETF receives ethical tick

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... activities. It also excludes companies involved in socially irresponsible activities such as alcohol, gambling, tobacco, military weapons, civilian firearms, nuclear power, adult entertainment and genetically modified organisms. High carbon emitters ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... sanctions on the country first and foremost, a guarantee that the US will not invade North Korea and a reduction of US military presence in South Korea. In name of peace and progress...sure, why not? But the history of US-North Korea negotiations are ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... partnership" and that Abe communicated to him that Japan "billions and billions of dollars of additional products of all kinds - military jets, airliners from Boeing, lots of farm products". This is good because Japan is an export-dependent country and ...