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Colonial First State launches sustainable growth fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
... with investors seeking to avoid the industries identified as being of most concern to Australians, including weapons and firearms, certain fossil fuels, gambling, pornography, alcohol, tobacco and predatory lending. At the same time, it will seek out ...

FTSE Russell launches new ESG indexes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2021
... constructed using ESG screening criteria. The screens eliminate exposure to companies involved in controversial weapons, firearms, tobacco, and fossil fuels. In addition, companies with ESG controversies are excluded. The indexes are based on the FTSE ...

Vanguard launches new ESG offerings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... with significant business activities involving fossil fuels, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, military weapons and civilian firearms, nuclear power and adult entertainment. The fund and ETF will also exclude shares in companies with conduct that contravenes ...

BlackRock drops fees on bond ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... use ESG screens for both ETFs to exclude companies involved in controversial weapons, fossil fuels, tobacco, civilian firearms and UN compact violators ? ?

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... use ESG screens for both ETFs to exclude companies involved in controversial weapons, fossil fuels, tobacco, civilian firearms and UN compact violators. They will also exclude securities like convertible notes, zero coupon notes, private placements ...

BlackRock Australia rejigs multi-asset range

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019
... comprehensive screening, accounting for nine areas including fossil fuels, alcohol, gambling, adult entertainment and civilian firearms. BlackRock said it is hard to quantify how much of the portfolio will change. "It's hard to quantify because changes ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... 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 fuel screen excludes companies ...

VanEck changes tack on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... It also screens out companies with certain business activities (adult entertainment, alcohol, animal welfare, civilian firearms, conventional weapons, controversial weapons, fossil fuels, gambling, genetically modified organisms, nuclear power, nuclear ...

NZ Super dumps guns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... semi-automatic weapons. The fund confirmed companies involved in the manufacture of civilian automatic and semi-automatic firearms, magazines or parts prohibited under New Zealand law were excluded from the $41 billion fund. In total, $19 million of ...

BlackRock launches Australian bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... 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 SRI index Then ...
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