Monday 2 December: New Market Forces analysis reveals most top Australian super funds are greenwashing and failing to use their influence to drive greater climate action at major gas companies. The analysis of the top 30 super funds’ voting disclosures finds that only...
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Top super fund re-invests in coal expansion
MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 25 June: New Market Forces analysis reveals a top 30 super fund has walked back its fossil fuel exclusion policy, re-exposing its members’ retirement savings to one of Australia’s biggest thermal coal miners, Whitehaven. The new research finds...
Is your super fund’s ‘sustainable’ option invested in companies expanding the fossil fuel industry?
21 July 2022 In response to member concerns over their super fund’s investments in climate wrecking companies, funds often point members to their ‘sustainable’ investment options. However, new analysis from Market Forces reveals some of these options are failing to...
Mark’s historic super fund legal win
5 November 2020 You may have seen the news this week about 25-year-old Brisbane ecologist Mark McVeigh, who won a historic legal battle against his $57 billion super fund, Rest, over climate change. What you may not know is that Mark used Market Forces’ research and...
Super funds are slowly moving on climate action – are your retirement savings still invested in climate destruction?
6 October 2020 2020 has seen some significant shifts in how super funds are dealing with climate change and the risks it poses, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars being withdrawn from some of Australia’s dirtiest companies. Millions more Australians no...
Vision Super dumps coal and tar sands
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text]27 November 2018 This week industry super fund Vision Super, whose membership is mainly made up of Victorian local government employees, announced that it will begin...
Do you own a piece of these dirty fossil fuel projects?
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Did Vision Super divest on the quiet?
15 December 2015 Early last week, Vision Super posted a press release on their website announcing their commitment to sustainable investment. Vision Super also updated their website, adding a page dedicated to “Sustainable Super” and the calming image of a wind farm...