Environmental criteria look at how organisations affect the natural environment – for example, whether an organisation’s activities are polluting or protecting.
Governance deals with an organisation’s leadership, executive pay, audits and internal controls and shareholder rights. Basically, how the organisation is run and what values it operates by.
There is growing evidence that ESG factors, when integrated into investment analysis and portfolios, can offer potential long-term performance advantages. Which means that your super performs better over the long term when ESG factors are considered.
We exercise our shareholder vote. This gives us the opportunity to support businesses that we consider to be acting in alignment with our ESG Principles, and oppose actions such as the use of cheap labour in unsafe conditions or excessive pay for executives.
ESG considerations are included in our fund-wide investment beliefs, which guide the decisions we make about our investment portfolio on behalf of our members.
We were an early signatory to the UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI)
We are a full member of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)
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