Israeli – Palestine conflict and investments identified by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Like everyone, we are concerned about the Israel-Palestine conflict and understand the questions arising in relation to investments held.
Below we provide you with some information about our funds.
We have compared the investment exposures of the Summer KiwiSaver scheme to the Human Rights Council report on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, dated February 2020, as well as the version updated as at 30 June 2023, which can be found here.
Using Summer KiwiSaver scheme data as 31 December 2023, our investigation has determined that the scheme’s main exposure is to Motorola, via an investment in the Te Ahumairangi Global Equity Fund. As of 24 January 2024 the Te Ahumairangi Global Equity Fund had divested Motorola. In addition the scheme has smaller investment exposures to Expedia and Alstom, a function of its holdings in units issued by the Hunter Global Fixed Interest Fund – PIMCO Australia Pty Ltd is the investment manager of the fund.
We calculate these total exposures to be as follows:
| Summer fund | % value of aggregated exposures basis net asset value of each fund as at 30 September 2023 |
| Summer Global Fixed Interest | -0.00002% |
| Summer Conservative Selection | 0.02520% |
| Summer Balanced Selection | 0.05711% |
| Summer Growth Selection | 0.08296% |
| Summer Global Equities | 0.25024% |
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