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Vision Super in hot water over coal investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
... policy last year. The super fund changed its environmental, social and governance policy, removing its revenue-based coal, oil and gas investment restrictions and replacing them with a "carbon budget framework". Market Forces analysis revealed Vision ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... that it eliminated investments that posed a risk to the environment and the community, including gambling, coal mining, and oil tar sands. Court documents showed that Active Super said it wouldn't invest in companies deriving more than 10% of their ...

Qantas Super boosts ag assets by $200m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Qantas Super has injected $200 million in an agriculture investor that has a $1.1 billion portfolio of farmland across the nation. The super fund has partnered with GO.FARM, a developer, manager, and investor in agricultural assets involved in the production ...

Dividends up but share buybacks fall: Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... expectations for dividends that might not be sustainable long term. "This is especially appropriate in cyclical industries like oil or banking. That flexibility explains why buybacks are more volatile than dividends. It also means there is no real evidence ...

Two new ETFs for Franklin Templeton

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
... 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 Australian Absolute Return Bond Fund (FRAR) is an actively ...

ASIC wins greenwashing case against Vanguard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... 74% of the fund's market value. ASIC had alleged investments that should have been screened out included Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline LLC (ADCOP), Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC, Colonial Pipeline Co, Empresa Nacional del Petróleo SA (ENAP) and ...

Global dividends reached record high in 2023

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... this year, the rapid declines from the mining sector are also likely to make less of an impact. Energy prices remain firm so oil dividends are affordable and the big defensive sectors like healthcare, food and basic consumer goods should continue to ...

Morningstar equities research lead departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... 5100," he noted. He also recalled the 1973-74 bear market in which the US market lost nearly half its value. Driven by the oil crisis, it followed the resignation of Richard Nixon due to Watergate. During this time Australia's Southern Cross won the ...

Norway's oil fund returns 16% in 2023

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
Norway's sovereign wealth fund has reversed its fortunes, clocking a 16.1% return for 2023 following the -14% it recorded the previous year. Norges Bank Investment Management reported the Government Pension Fund Global raked in a return of $322 billion ...

Agricultural sector in for a mixed 2024: Outlook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... and diesel prices will continue to keep production costs high. These elevated costs are driven by high gas prices, volatile oil production and a low Australian dollar," Rural Bank said. The cost of seasonal labour will also remain high, driven by the ...