Here, Peter Hall puts his heart and logic and the analytic skill of a great investment manager together in a personal essay. Download the pdf http://www.hunterhall.com.au/pdf/Lumberjacks/Lumberjacks.pdf Published in October 2007 it serves as a great baseline for understanding the “issues”.
Big managed super funds have the difficult task of weighing up sometimes conflicting needs of members. In this case the smoothing out of financial returns or reducing “volatility” has caused a watering down of the ethical specifications. The article is a good one for practical education in how the issues play out in the management [...]
If a fund is labelled as “ethical” that simply means that it uses some sort of set of ethical standards as compared to not using any at all. The article linked here is a good example of why an investor seeking particular ethics must go beyond the label and read the actual ethical guidelines of [...]
Orginally written in 1999 by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, “Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution” is a ground-breaking blueprint for a new economy. . http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Natural++Capitalism The rest of the Rocky Mountain Institute website is worth an afternoon of self education. Then you can buy the book. “Natural Capitalism” and [...]
Thursday, 4 August 2011 12:00pm By Matt Woodington | In Regulatory Australian companies will be under pressure to publish their environmental, social and governance risk under a new reporting guide launched today. The Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) have teamed up to produce the ESG Reporting Guide for [...]
Superannuation funds and fund managers have warned against the advertising campaign against the carbon tax, with concerns it’s misleading the public and threatening a shareholder resolution. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), responsible for investments totalling $600 billion, said its shareholders, which include AustralianSuper, HESTA Super, AMP Capital and Industry Funds Management, will contact [...]
