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Green moves: Alphinity, Australian Ethical, Climate Change Authority

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... advises businesses and governments on issues such as climate change, nature conservation, anti-slavery initiatives, and gambling-related harm. Toohill has previously co-chaired the UN Environment Programme's Banking Board and served on the UN's Net-Zero ...

Active Super to pay $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... ESG programs..." Between 1 February 2021 and 30 June 2023, the super fund claimed it steered clear of investments in gambling, coal mining, oil tar sands, and Russian companies since the invasion of Ukraine. For example, an Active Super Responsible Investment ...

Future Group ramps up screening

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... forward their international equities portfolio contains no investments in fossil fuels, weapons, nuclear energy, and gambling. For tobacco however, there is a 5% threshold for distribution revenue and a 0% threshold for production. Future Group also ...

Activist platform launches full share trading

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... listed companies the ability to influence a board, but only with more than 100 investors. Campaigns range from issues like gambling to deforestation, paid parental leave, gas fracking and other environmental issues.

Betashares launches first ethical bonds ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... screened to exclude issuers (other than sovereign bond issuers) with material exposure to fossil fuels. It screens for gambling, tobacco, uranium and nuclear energy, armaments and militarism, and adult entertainment, based on a 0-5% revenue threshold. ...

Podcast: Screening and controversies - tobacco, weapons, fossil fuels and more with Julia Leske

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
When investors want to avoid specific activities in their portfolio - like tobacco, gambling, weapons, fossil fuels, or adult entertainment - they turn to ESG screening. But what happens behind the scenes when fund managers make these crucial decisions? ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... organising several other shareholder activism campaigns, including pressuring media giants Nine, Seven, and News Corp to drop gambling ads.

Net zero dreams float on unscaled tech

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... likely from more expensive solutions." Last month, a group of over 500 investors warning investors and companies against gambling their transition plans on CCS. Under the Paris Agreement, nations must limit warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial ...

Shareholders to say 'no' to gambling ads

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... and Future Group are backing an investor campaign to stop media giants Seven West and Nine Entertainment from running gambling ads. Ethinvest, a financial planning group, and Future Group, the parent company of super funds including Childcare Super and ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... options promised to exclude companies involved in carbon intensive fossil fuels like thermal coal, alcohol production and gambling. They were promoted as suitable for members who "are deeply committed to sustainability". Many of the options, however ...
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