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Sean Aylmer

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FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

And this is a really large super fund.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Should I be insisting that that fund, that my super fund, disclose exactly where my retirement savings is going, more specifically rather than the broad categories I'm getting at the moment?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Okay.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

One of the things, when we talk about ethical investing, as you said at the front, it's different to different people.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Are there certain categories, and I suppose I'm thinking of weapons and tobacco, which broadly most people don't want to be involved in, but there must be a lot of grey areas, shall I say?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

What's the website?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Because I'm actually going to do that because my fund has been named.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

What is the website, Barry?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Keep it nice and simple.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

One of the things, ethical investing, which has changed in my time covering it, 10 years ago it was...

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

in some ways, more black and white.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

You're in or you're out.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Now, there's much more of an argument that big investors partaking in change, and this is particularly around fossil fuels, oil and gas companies, we can be part of it.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

The superannuation fund of the institutional investor will argue, we can be part of the conversation to shift to renewables, as an example.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

How do I think about that?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

And I mean, I know it's a personal thing, but I always wonder whether that's right, whether I'm actually better to be with a fund who argues that they're part of the conversation and that's better than not being there at all.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

What happens if the super companies don't be better at disclosing?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

I know the report talks about younger Australians being much more willing to switch funds if they discover investments that they disagree with.

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Do you think that in the end the members will force the super funds to behave better when it comes to disclosure?

FEAR & GREED | Business News
Q+A: The ethical investing gap inside Australia’s super funds

Barry, thanks for talking to Fear and Greed.