Tobacco Free Portfolios CEO Dr Bronwyn King AO was pleased to participate in the global webinar ‘Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare company retirement plans are addicted to tobacco’, alongside As You Sow, the USA’s non-profit leader in shareholder advocacy, on Wednesday, October 28, 2020.
Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Webinar
In 2020, tobacco will kill five times more people than COVID-19—and is on track to kill one billion people this century. Furthermore, cigarette butts are the largest single type of litter by count, and have become the number one form of plastic pollution in the ocean, surpassing plastic straws. As the world moves to protect…
Rose McInerney, Sipping on Stories
June 2020 Newsletter
COVID-19 has presented many challenges to communities across the globe and we send our support to all those who have been and continue to be impacted. Many have emphasised how important Tobacco Free Portfolios’ work is right now, including finance leaders who continue to prioritise global health through new tobacco-free decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic….
Maritza Barone, Things You Can’t Un-Hear
Maritza Barone, Things You Can’t Un-Hear
Alecta Announced Tobacco-Free Position: USD 90B
As a long-term investor, Alecta said its investments need to be focused on companies that are well-managed and have a business model with a long sustainability date.
UK’s Largest Private Pension Fund to Exit Tobacco
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), which oversees more than 68 billion pounds (USD 84 billion) of assets, will begin selling its holdings in these industries within two years and will exclude any further investment, according to a statement on Monday from USS’s main investment manager and adviser.
FREEDOM – WomanScape
When a young Australian radiation oncologist learned she was investing in tobacco, the drug killing her patients and over 8 million people annually around the world, she decided to fight back.
December 2019 Newsletter
In six months, Tobacco Free Portfolios welcomed 19 new Signatories to the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge bringing the total number of Signatories to 129. These Signatories represent US$8.25 Trillion Assets Under Management and US$2.08 Trillion Corporate Loan Books with Gross Insurance Premiums amounting to US$186 Billion. This newsletter also acknowledges IDLC Finance Limited of Bangladesh –…