One of the more strange turns of events this year is seeing AustralianSuper chief Paul Schroder and his head of ESG, Andrew Gray, rekindle their love for burning coal. The country’s largest super fund has become the second-largest shareholder of ASX-listed coal producer Whitehaven.
AusSuper had built a 6.17 per cent position in the Queensland coal company, this column reported on Tuesday. After it was published, someone must have been reading.