QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR SUPER FUND AT THEIR NEXT ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING.
Hold them to account for their investments into Israel’s illegal settlements.
Asking a question at your superannuation fund’s annual members meeting is critically important. You need to take every opportunity to remind your fund that you, as a member, will not tolerate your retirement money being invested into an illegal occupation.
Here are 12 questions you can ask your fund at their next annual members meeting.
- Several other funds have divested from Israeli banks or Israeli domiciled bonds. Why hasn’t this fund done the same?
- With other funds reducing or exiting Israeli holdings, what analysis has the fund done to avoid holding stranded or reputationally risky assets?
- Is the fund concerned about the financial risks of continuing to hold Israeli-linked investments given the increasing likelihood of sanctions?
- How does the fund justify continued investment in companies clearly complicit in financing illegal settlements and oppressing Palestinians?
- Does the fund plan to revise its settlement-linked investments in light of international rulings confirming their illegality?
- How does the fund’s exposure to companies on the UN Human Rights Council Database align with its Responsible Investment and ESG policies?
- What process does the fund use to decide when an investment breaches ESG policies, and why haven’t flagged companies triggered this?
- How does the fund consult members on ethical divestment, and will it engage members concerned about investments linked to Israel’s settlements?
- Does the fund acknowledge its obligations under international law regarding these investments?
- If the ICJ rules Israel guilty of genocide, what will the fund do with related holdings?
- Will the fund commit to a time-bound review of complicit investments, with results reported to members within six months?
- How will the fund use ESG stewardship to ensure Israeli banks are not contributing to human rights violations in Palestine?