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Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
Bill and Melinda Gates have filed for divorce and will now set about dividing their US$130 billion fortune. A petition for dissolution of their marriage was filed by the couple in King County, Washington. They have been married since 1 January 1994. ...

Former Socceroo joins Crescent Foundation board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
The non-profit organisation backed by Islamic superannuation fund Crescent Wealth has appointed a former Socceroo player to its board. Craig Foster played for the Socceroos for four years and was chief football analyst at SBS for 18 years. In addition ...

Super fund expands investment exclusions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... super fund had been a significant shareholder in Transfield, a company that ran Australian detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island at the time, but divested that holding in 2015. This comes after the fund announced it would reduce absolute carbon ...

Wealth manager appoints former NSW Premier to chair foundation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
A former NSW Premier will chair a foundation supported by an Islamic superannuation fund. Bob Carr has been appointed as chairman of Crescent Foundation, the charity supported by Islamic superannuation fund Crescent Wealth. The former New South Wales ...

HESTA chair on responsible investment board

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... billion fund divested its 3.5% stake in Transfield Services - the operator of Australian detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Emslie said in her 21-year tenure as a director at HESTA she has helped the fund become one of Australia's first to ...

HESTA chair seeks PRI board position

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... once vanilla utilities stock given the increasing litigation risk Transfield's detention centre operations on Nauru and Manus Island may be accumulating. Consideration of these simple facts might have prevented other business leaders like Mark Johnson ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... expressed concern that 20% of the company's revenue comes from government contracts to manage asylum seeker detention centres in Manus and Nauru. Transfield's defence division was the only one to deliver profit for the half year to February 2015, with ...

HESTA divests from Transfield

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... fund HESTA has divested its 3.5% stake in Transfield Services, the operator of Australian detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Major factors behind HESTA's divestment were the views of several independent non-government organisations who found ...

HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Wednesday, on the grounds that ASU members, most of whom are members of HESTA, did not want their retirement funds invested in Manus Island detention centre, which Transfield runs. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, the ASU's NSW/ACT ...
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