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Nostradamus Revisited? # ETHICAL INVESTMENT Continued from page 5 Continued from page 13 Christianity will virtually collapse when it is discovered Included in those are the Maleny & District Community Credit that that Jesus had children, and that his bloodline sur- | Union, North Coast Ethical Credit Union, Bellingen District Loan vives to this day. Fund, and the Fitzroy & Carlton Community Credit Cooperative. A spiritual revolution will sweep the planet at this time. Atlantis will be discovered, as will ruined cities on Mars | ETHICAL CRITERIA and the Moon. Earth's history will be re-written. A man will emerge who will charm the world, and fool Broadly speaking, their ethical criteria aim to improve the quality many into believing that he is the return of the Christ. He | of life and prosperity of the local community in a sustainable and will bring peace to some countries, but it will be only to | environmentally sound way, while fostering social responsibility. further his plans for war. Other Australian ethical investment vehicles include trusts, super- An alien race will contact us and reveal that their race is | annuation funds, bonds and savings plans. The ethical criteria use a dying out from a genetic weakness. They will be given | system of “negative screens” ie. excluding certain investments, often land and resources in return for technology and science. | in South Africa, armaments, animal experimentation, tobacco, or The anti-christ and the aliens will form an unpleasant | alcohol. In addition, some organisations use “positive screens” or alliance. directed investment to positively support for example, afforestation, In the late 1990's a small planetoid will plunge into | recycling, locally based investment funds, employee ownership and Earth. It will contain a reptilian alien race hellbent on | the development of appropriate technologies. invasion and enslavement of this planet. You don’t have to compromise profit for principle. What is com- At this point the many prophecies describing this period | mon to both US and British ethical funds is that they have tended to read like a science fiction story. The general direction | perform better than funds which do not restrict the discretion of the from here on would indicate a battle for the spiritual pos- | investment managers. session of the planet is at the heart of the mega-conflict In Australia, the August Investments Managed Trust, launched in now raging on Earth and in the heavens. October 1989, has shown that it can out perform conventional funds. The best description I can put together is that the whole | ASSIRT ranked August No. | over 3 weeks and 13 weeks and No 3 of the third dimension is now overdue for its progression | over 26 weeks out of Diversified Equity Trusts. The Managing into the fourth dimension. However, there would appear to | Director of Directed Financial Management Ltd. who manages the be several species happily existing in the third dimension | trust, stated that using ASSIRT’s performance measures, the fund who don't want to leave it, and don't the dimension itself | would also have been No. | over the previous 12 months if the fund to evolve either. had been open to the public for the entire period. It appears as if many civilisations have been patiently This mixture of principles and profits is not as paradoxical as it waiting for Earth to “make the grade” for the jump into a | seems. In recent years, companies involved in South Africa, tobacco higher plane of existence. It would also appear that Earth | and arms business have experienced below average earnings growth. has been lagging behind schedule, mainly due to its inhab- | The ethical funds, by avoiding many multi-nationals and diversified itants not willing to let go of physical reality and the emo- | companies tend to invest in smaller companies and it is well accept- tional and spiritual security it of fers. ed that over the longer term, small companies’ stocks tend to outper- The resulting mega-conflict between the forces of evo- | form those of larger companies. lution and the forces of stagnation seems to be indicated in many predictions, Armageddon being just one description. | WWE MUST ALL TAKE ACTION The year 2012, August 12th in particular is regularly mentioned as a major date in the destiny of humanity. The The success or failure of the conservation movement in Australia Earth's own biorhythms allegedly coincide on this date, | is often judged in terms of battles won or battles lost. Issues are often not to mention many other factors and prophecies to | seen in terms of “us” and “them”; “jobs” versus “the environment” numerous to mention here. or “greenies” versus “the developers”. We are all intrinsically part of It may also be then that the Earth and the solar system | the problem and we must all take action to be part of the solution. passes through the “photon belt”. This is described as a That solution firstly involves active financial planning to achieve giant cloud of photons, through which our system passes | our goals and personal financial independence. For the individual every 12,500 years (see article opposite). Descriptions of | that process produces strong results. However, the impact, in global the effects are many, but this may be the “cosmic trigger” | terms, of those planning and investment choices is of crucial impor- that nudges us to awaken to our spiritual destiny, a destiny | tance. so large, that our whole 3-D existence is just one class- Ethical investment provides unprecedented opportunities for social room in the giant school of life. change. It is up to each of us to investigate those opportunities; to The final part of this compilation is the best - peace will | make our money work for us and the kind of world we want. return for a long time to come. This may be purely a result of so few people with no Amanda Falconer is a Financial Planning Consultant with Money energy left to fight, or it may mean that a new heaven has | Matters Financial Group, Investment Advisers specialising in ethical dawned on Earth. investment. NEXUS - 34 Continued from page 5 YEAR BOOK - FEBRUARY 1991