Mindful Money Awards have just released their high level line-up of speakers for their inaugural Ethical Investment conference and awards, which will be taking place at Generator@GridAKL in Auckland on 29 June. Entries for the seven awards categories .
Press Release – Mindful Money Mindful Money Awards have just released their high level line-up of speakers for their inaugural Ethical Investment conference and awards, which will be taking place at Generator@GridAKL in Auckland on 29 June. Entries for the seven awards categories …
Mindful Money Awards have just released their high level line-up of speakers for their inaugural Ethical Investment conference and awards, which will be taking place at Generator@GridAKL in Auckland on 29 June. Entries for the seven awards categories close on 10th May.
Barry Coates, founder and CEO of Mindful Money commented:
“We have been pleased with the level of interest in the awards, but time is running out to get the entries in. Managers of ethical and impact funds, financial advisers and journalists should go to https://mindfulmoney.nz/pages/23/awardsentry/ to make an entry before they close on 10th May.”
‘Labour’, a centennial history of the Labour Party
Socialist and workers’ parties around the world this weekend celebrate the international day of labour, or May Day.
But not in New Zealand and a handful of other countries, which separately mark the contribution of the labour movement.
New Zealand’s Labour Day was set on the fourth Monday of October in 1890, one year after the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, or Second International, declared the first May Day. Common to both were demands for an eight-hour day, a call that had been answered for some New Zealand trade unionists as early as 1840 through the efforts of Auckland carpenter Samuel Parnell.
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On eve of AXA’s annual general meeting (AGM), United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Michael Lynk, called on the French insurance giant to fully divest from Israeli banks while activists gathered in several cities across Europe raising the same demand.
AXA currently invests US$6 million in four Israeli banks which finance the illegal Israeli settlements on confiscated land in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem.
Speaking ahead of AXA’s AGM Mr. Lynk emphasized that:“Given the gross human rights violations associated with the Israeli settlements, it is impossible for businesses to be economically engaged with the Israeli settlements and still respect their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law.”
Investing for good - the new moves to take the nasties out of your KiwiSaver
30 Apr, 2021 05:32 AM
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Fossil fuel investments must be excluded under the new default KiwiSaver provider appointments. Photo / File
Five years ago, KiwiSaver investors were shocked to find their retirement savings were propping up companies involved in cluster bombs, landmines and tobacco. Fund managers pulled out of the investments, black-listing a range of companies in those sectors and building exclusion lists to make sure they kept onside with members.
Now a new group of exclusions are set to be added to the list of companies that KiwiSaver providers will either have to avoid, or make an active decision to include or exclude.