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This super fund creates positive returns – and social benefits

This super fund creates positive returns – and social benefits

Within its $9b fund, Qantas Super allocated $600 million for social impact investing. This year it backed an aged care project, to improve quality of care.

James EyersSenior Reporter
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Social impact investing has involved a lot of talk but little action. One superannuation fund bucking that trend is Qantas Super.

For the past two years, the $9 billion corporate fund – now merging with the much larger Australian Retirement Trust – has been developing an impact investing strategy.

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James EyersSenior ReporterJames Eyers writes on banking, payments and fintech. He is a former legal and investment banking editor at the AFR, has degrees in commerce and law from UNSW, and is co-author of Buy now, pay later: The extraordinary story of Afterpay Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at jeyers@afr.com.au

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