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VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... "proprietary dynamic alpha model," SSgA said. The portfolio will also exclude companies involved in the manufacture of tobacco products - in May of this year, VicSuper's trustees voted to gradually divest from holdings in tobacco products. At the time ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... manufacturers," Finlayson said. "Increasingly, around SRI and private equity, it tends to be thing around alcohol and tobacco, tends to be one where if companies are acting in the public interest - if you're a healthcare provider, and if you have an ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... showed us that members say that SRI is more important to them than ESG and that an option that screened out armaments, tobacco and pornography would be very highly regarded." Based on that research, NGS Super is designing the SRI option with asset allocation ...

Cbus to divest from tobacco assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Cbus will divest from its holdings in companies that manufacture tobacco products. The investment committee and board of the AU$23 billion industry superannuation fund made the decision based on the interests of members and their long-term investment ...

J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... tenants that take up leases in their buildings as well as the question of "pariah tenants" - tenants that work in alcohol, tobacco, pornography, gambling, armaments and nuclear energy. The equity research team spoke with the REITs about their approach ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... there's a minimum 10% threshold that screens out stocks from industries such as uranium mining, gambling, armaments and tobacco, and there's the SRI overlay." Hartnett said that it is more difficult to use responsible investment strategies with a quantitative ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... this for moral reasons in their funds. Surely if we've reached a point that we understand that we don't want to invest in tobacco stocks, we can understand why we wouldn't want to invest in fossil fuel stocks." According to Citi's research, 14.1% of ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Fund to divest its investments in coal companies. Senator Christine Milne "Earlier this year the Future Fund ditched its tobacco investments in response to a campaign led by the Greens," said Senator Christine Milne. "Now that climate change denier David ...

VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... VicSuper and the SAS Trustee Corporation (STC) have voted to divest their funds of holdings in companies that manufacture tobacco products. The $9.2 billion VicSuper said it will phase out investing in manufacturers of tobacco products from this year ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... shareholder resolution for the annual general meeting of TOMRA, calling on the Norwegian company to cease manufacturing tobacco sorting machines. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director TOMRA manufactures reverse recycling machines and sorting ...