Colonial First State Archives

Traditional Owners and members lodge human rights complaints against top 20 Super funds requesting they reject Santos gas projects

by Manny Perez | Apr 26, 2023 | Media releases

MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 26 April: Traditional Owners of three First Nations across Australia along with superannuation fund members have lodged human rights complaints against the top 20 Australian super funds over hundreds of millions of dollars of members’ money...

First Super Dirty Gas awards for Equipsuper, Colonial First State and REST

by Matt Tomkins | Feb 23, 2023 | Media releases, Super Fund Actions, Super Funds

MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 22 February: Equipsuper, Colonial First State and REST have been shamed with the first ever Super Dirty Gas awards as new Market Forces analysis reveals the funds have the highest proportion of Australian shares invested in Santos and Woodside...

Which super funds are the biggest enablers of climate-wrecking oil and gas expansion?

by Brett Morgan | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog, Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Oil, Santos, Super Funds, Woodside

21 February 2023 Now that super funds are required to disclose their investments to members every six months, we are able to track over time which funds have the highest proportion of their members’ retirement savings invested in climate-wrecking oil and gas companies...

New analysis: Australia’s biggest super funds fractured on fossil gas

by Brett Morgan | Oct 18, 2022 | Media releases, Super Funds

MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 18 October: New analysis by Market Forces reveals some of Australia’s biggest super funds have been selling millions of shares in oil and gas giants Woodside and Santos, while others are investing heavily in these climate-wrecking companies. The...