Super funds respond to members' calls to dump coal
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Some of the nation’s largest superannuation firms are protecting their members from climate risk by dumping thermal coal from their retirement savings. The Australian Retirement Trust (ART), which looks after more than $280 billion worth of savings, has become the nation’s largest super fund to exclude thermal coal. As a global investor, the fund says […]

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