We invest our members’ super for competitive financial returns whilst helping to create the sort of world they want to retire in.
We consider how each investment we make can contribute to a prosperous future free from climate change and inequality.
Our Renewables Plus Growth option is shown below. See our investment options page to compare all.
We use a two-step ethical screening process to ensure your money is invested in companies that can help to grow your super savings and build a better world for you to retire into.
Here’s a subset of our screening criteria for investments:
We disclose all of the investments in our portfolios:
Shareholders have the power to influence the companies they invest in and raise concerns about how they are operating.
On your behalf, Future Super engages directly with the companies you invest your super in on important issues, or in response to something they could do better.
We publish our proxy voting record annually following the end of each financial year. This voting summary reflects the voting record for both direct investments and for investments made through funds that Future Super invests in.
When Future Super invests money via other funds, we request that the fund managers vote the shares from our investment according to the values of Future Super investors.
In 2019 alone, our members collectively abated and avoided just over 62,000 tCO2e. That’s like...
Wondering how that stacks up annually?
Data is calculated by comparing the tonnes of carbon dioxide our Balanced Impact investment option avoided and abated through our sustainable investment strategy for the 2019 calendar year, with the tonnes of carbon dioxide an individual person avoids by taking each of these actions for the same twelve-month period.
Based on this IOP research study completed and published in July 2017.
You can see more information like this (including our methodologies and assumptions) in our Impact Reports:
Investment in Australian equities is predominantly made via the BetaShares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF. Investment in international equities is via the BetaShares Global Sustainability Leaders ETF. Exposure to global green bonds is predominantly made via the BetaShares Sustainability Leaders Diversified Bond ETF. For more information about these ETFs see https://www.betashares.com.au.
Future Super Investment Services Pty Ltd (FSIS) is a service provider to BetaShares for these products, with its role being to provide recommendations to the Responsible Investment Committee on the index constituents and corporate actions. Details of FSIS services to BetaShares are found in the Financial Services Guide.
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