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NZ Super 'accepts' court loss, updates policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026
... Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) issued judicial review proceedings against NZ Super Fund for its failure to divest from Israeli companies that have been deemed by the United Nations to be complicit in the Israeli occupation of Occupied Palestinian ...

NZ Super Fund in court defeat over human rights issues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) issued judicial review proceedings against NZ Super Fund for its failure to divest from Israeli companies that have been deemed by the United Nations to be complicit in the Israeli occupation of Occupied Palestinian ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
As HESTA and Vision Super move to divest members' money from Israeli bonds and shares, other superannuation funds' ethical options continue to overlook human rights abuses. HESTA confirmed the move, saying that as part of its investment strategy ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Norway's US$2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has severed ties with 11 Israeli companies and is in the process of terminating mandates with external managers based in Israel. The sovereign wealth fund's manager, Norges Bank Investment Management ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... respond, with officials warning of 'everlasting consequences'. Possible actions include missile, or drone strikes on US or Israeli targets, cyberattacks, or asymmetric attacks via proxies like Hezbollah or Houthi rebels, though their capabilities are ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
How the Trump administration handles geopolitical conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will inject uncertainty to private markets, according to IFM Investors' Private Markets Macro Outlook. IFM Investors chief ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... Hartung told ABC Radio. The Hamas attack killed about 1139 people and 250 were taken as captives, according to popular Israeli news site Haaretz. An Al Jazeera report found dozens of foreigners and dual citizens from more than 20 countries were also ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author, has died aged 90. Kahneman was an Israeli American psychologist whose research into human behaviour upended economics. Kahneman's research demonstrated humans would often abandon logic and ...

Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... the only fund that does not invest in any of the defence stocks. Elbit has been awarded a series of contracts from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) which it said was "an aggregate amount that is material to the company" since the Hamas attack on 7 October ...

Investors warned on human rights risk in Israel-Hamas conflict

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
... important for companies and investors to monitor and manage conflict in all its guises." The toolkit refers to the to the Israeli occupied-Palestinian Territories as well as providing a list of OHCHR's list of businesses operating in settlements ...
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