NZ Super Fund quits backing nuclear base operators

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has excluded seven companies with operations in nuclear bases from its $22 billion portfolio, while clearing the return for four firms which had previously been excluded for their involvement in cluster munitions.

The Cullen Fund, so-called for its architect former Finance Minister Michael Cullen, will exclude public companies Babcock & Wilcox, Fluor Corp, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Jacobs Engineering Group, Serco Group and URS Corp, having sold its $2.2 million holdings in those firms, it said in a statement. Private company Bechtel Group will also be excluded.

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