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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 ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Global Compact, and the other screens remove manufacturers of controversial weapons such as cluster bombs and landmines and tobacco manufacturers. After those screens, constituent companies that lack sufficient independence across ownership, board representation ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investment universe, across ESG characteristics. We bias towards the companies that score well and screen out gambling, tobacco, exposure to armaments and pornography." Dalton Nicol Reid also manages an Australian equities income portfolio, which is ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Future Fund will exclude tobacco companies from its investment portfolio, the Board of Guardians has announced. The fund owns stock in 14 companies in involved in tobacco production, with a combined worth of approximately AU$222 million at the end ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... take in more than 10% of their revenue from areas including "armaments, gambling, nuclear/uranium, old growth logging, tobacco, poor mining practices, questionable workplace practices, and questionable ESG practices," the report said. "The international ...