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ART extends exclusions in Socially Conscious option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... obtain more than 5% of revenues from thermal coal; metallurgical coal; oil and gas; fossil fuel generation; alcohol; gambling; and adult entertainment. Additionally, any investment that gets any revenue from tobacco and alternative smoking products ...

Active Super fined $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... ESG programs..." Between 1 February 2021 and 30 June 2023, the super fund claimed it steered clear of investments in gambling, coal mining, oil tar sands, and Russian companies since the invasion of Ukraine. For example, an Active Super Responsible Investment ...

NZ council seeks investment manager partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... there. The portfolio adopts a socially responsible investment framework. Investments exclude, but are not limited to, gambling, weapons, tobacco, and whale meat harvesting or processing. "As a council, we are mindful that we must be socially responsible ...

Financial services minister Stephen Jones to retire from politics

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... and better infrastructure for growing suburbs. Jones said he was proud of his role in advancing marriage equality and gambling advertising reform. He also highlighted efforts to "secure the future of our steel industry" and to "rebuild TAFE." More recently ...

Federal Court appoints receivers to ALAMMC Developments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... companies earlier this year after receiving information from the Queensland Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation about his gambling activities, which reportedly included significant losses at the Star Casino. The corporate regulator suspects that the ...

Court freezes assets of company director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... companies earlier this year after receiving information from the Queensland Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation about his gambling activities, which included significant losses at the Star Casino. The corporate regulator suspects that the funds used ...

Former director sentenced for misappropriating investor funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
... sentenced to home detention after he was found guilty of misappropriating $440,000 of investors' funds, including gambling some of it. Russell Sandiford was sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment, to be served at home. Between January ...

Future Group joins campaign to ban gambling ads

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... and Future Group are backing an investor campaign to stop media giants Seven West and Nine Entertainment from running gambling ads. Ethinvest, a financial planning group, and Future Group, the parent company of super funds including Guild Super and Verve ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... options promised to exclude companies involved in carbon intensive fossil fuels like thermal coal, alcohol production and gambling. They were promoted as suitable for members who "are deeply committed to sustainability". Many of the options, however ...

Boutique ESG fund manager folds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
... fund 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 ...
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