Barry Coates
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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So there are ways that funds can offer people choices and alternatives.
in their investing.
And that's a good thing.
We shouldn't have all the funds clinging to a single model and therefore there essentially ends up being no choice.
Yeah, I think, Sean, there are two issues.
One, I think there should be an onus on funds to say where the money is going, and particularly in areas which are potentially controversial or people might be worried about, they should front up and say where the money is going in those investments.
And that's an onus on the funds themselves.
And what we find is that they generally tuck it away in somewhere deep in a website.
They make it virtually unreadable, just a list of companies.
And it's not helped then by government regulation because government regulation doesn't actually require full disclosure.
Government regulation just requires about two-thirds online.
of the portfolio has to be disclosed.
And that is a problem.
And Australia's been called one of the worst in the OECD on the legal requirements to disclose.
So that's a problem for disclosure as well.
The owner shouldn't be on the member to have to go and do their research, which is in a way why we started Mindful Investing, because we do the research so individuals don't have to.
There are.
And what we do when we do our surveys is we identify the key areas where there's commonality.
And for a lot of people, they think, oh, well, maybe ethics are really different across the whole population.
But actually, when you look at people's responses to surveys,
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