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New Zealanders want KiwiSaver funds to consider ESG factors: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... that the top five industries that most respondents want to avoid investing in include whaling, nuclear power, tobacco, gambling and weapons, whilst key issues that New Zealanders want their KiwiSaver providers to take into account are issues related ...

UCA Funds Management adds Nine Entertainment Company to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... Company to its list of excluded companies due to its "market leading position in attracting advertising revenue from the gambling industry." Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management The ethical funds manager cited the "dominance of online gambling advertising ...

Not for Podcast: Discrediting Online Gambling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Australians are the biggest gamblers in the world, losing more money per adult on gambling than any other developed country. The average loss for each Australian who gambled was $1,500, according to a government inquiry in 2010. It also found the costs ...

LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... companies that provide "significant services" to prohibited industries including armaments, weapons, tobacco, mining and gambling; a new screen that precludes investment in companies in fossil fuel industries, and an additional screen that excludes financial ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... hold corporate debt from fossil fuel companies or convertible notes from companies that derive material business from gambling, another area of exclusion. "I think investors that wish to invest ethically would like, where possible, to have solutions ...

ACCR highlights lack of transparency in political donations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... states have cap regimes. NSW has particularly restrictive prohibitions - companies in the property, tobacco, liquor and gambling sectors can't donate at all. The Governance Institute explained in the guide that there are different definitions for what ...

Dimensional Fund Advisors launches Global Sustainability Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... social screens to "exclude or reduce exposure" to companies connected to or derive revenue from practices such as tobacco, gambling, alcohol, child labour, cluster munitions, pornography and factory farming, the asset manager said. Dimensional's methodology ...

Citi, Credit Suisse top ESG RA Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... process. Michael Walsh, CEO of UCA Funds Management flagged that his organisation is assessing its position on online gambling with a particular focus on banks that permit their credit cards to be used in the process of online gambling. Walsh was a key ...

Demand exceeds supply in Australian green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... they want to screen out some of those poorer-performing ESG industries or companies," Leonard said. "We have bans on gambling, tobacco, and the like for some clients, and they'll also look at limiting high carbon sensitive companies. So that's how some ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... assessed and approved." The fund screens out companies if their "primary business activity involves armaments, uranium, gambling, tobacco production, pornography, alcohol production, or production or sale of thermal coal," according to Altius Asset Management. ...