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Your Ethics, Your Portfolio

Nucleus Ethical offers a professionally managed portfolio built around your values. Choose the ethical issues that matter to you while we manage a diversified portfolio designed for long-term investing. 

Your Ethics 

Build a portfolio that doesn't compromise your personal values. With 100+ screens and tilts, you get to decide what belongs in your portfolio.

Your Portfolio

 Choose the ethical preferences that matter to you, and we’ll apply them to a diversified portfolio that’s actively managed for the long term. It’s a simple way to keep your investments aligned with both your financial goals and your personal values. 

Your Control

No black boxes or hidden decisions. View every company in your portfolio, understand why it's included, and see the ethical screens you've chosen—all backed by clear reporting and performance insights. 

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Core Portfolios

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Screens to exclude stocks

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Tilts to favour stocks

Ethical Articles from our blog

A Fast Guide to Ethical Investing & Negative Screening in Australia

Ethical investing has a noise problem.
Damien Klassen
Damien Klassen

Bytes vs Burgers: Tech & Food Investing Guide

There is a lot of paranoia about AI. And we should be worried about it taking jobs too quickly, worsening inequality and mental health effects.
Damien Klassen
Damien Klassen

Santa’s ESG Dilemma

Why your "Green" fund might just be a lump of coal wrapped in expensive paper. Santa Claus was the original ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investor. He maintains a ...
Damien Klassen
Damien Klassen

Trump Was Right About Ethical Investing (But for the Wrong Reasons)

Five years ago, during the first Trump presidency, I wrote a controversial post titled Could Trump be Right About Ethical Investing?.
Damien Klassen
Damien Klassen

Snake Oil 2.0: Why the ESG is its own worst enemy

Quick disclaimer. I run ethical funds. We let clients add or subtract ethical (and investment) themes from all our portfolios. But I've never been a fan of the industry. Seven ...
Damien Klassen
Damien Klassen

Real Investors, Real Results: Why Customisation Matters

Earlier this year, we were proud to be recognised at the WeMoney Superannuation Awards 2025, winning Best for Portfolio Customisation. That recognition meant a lot to us — because ...
Gabriele Famous
Gabriele Famous

Idealism, Income and Identity: What Our Investments Say about Us

When it comes to ethical investing, what we say we believe and where we actually put our money aren’t always aligned. The latest investor data and survey results from Nucleus ...
Nucleus Wealth Team
Nucleus Wealth Team

The World of Ethical Investing (HD Remastered Replay)

This is the remastered version of our podcast. Our episodes will continue to be recorded live, but we are committed to delivering high-quality audio that is optimized for your ...
Nucleus Wealth Team
Nucleus Wealth Team

Ethical Investing: The War on ESG & Weapons Tags

ESG investing is a complicated area with many ethical dilemmas and moral decisions to be made.
Samuel Kerr
Samuel Kerr

The World of Ethical Investing | Nucleus Investment Insights

In this investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Adviser, Samuel Kerr discussed the many grey areas of ethical investing ...
Samuel Kerr
Samuel Kerr

Nucleus Wealth launches Australian Direct Indexing Option

Recently described by CNBC as “the hot new investing strategy”, Vanguard, Blackrock and Morgan Stanley have all recently acquired direct indexing companies to bolster their ...
Shelley George
Shelley George

How to exclude securities in countries like Russia from your portfolio

The western world has not engaged in war with Russia in a traditional sense yet, but it is waging financial war through economic sanctions and the divestment of Russian ...
Samuel Kerr
Samuel Kerr

How to make your ethical investment effective | Nucleus Investment Insights

In today's investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth's Head of Investments Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Advisor Sam Kerr cover the different ways you can invest ethically, how ...
Samuel Kerr
Samuel Kerr

Ethical Investment Calculator results: 'Vice' divides investors… War and Climate unite!

Did you know that Baby Boomers are far more likely to excluded vices from their investments than Millennials? Or that both generations are equally likely to exclude War and ...
Nucleus Wealth Team
Nucleus Wealth Team

Could Trump be right about... ethical investing???

Many of you will have seen Trump's announcement essentially trying to prevent pension funds from considering ethical issues for investing. To quote The Australian:
Nucleus Wealth Team
Nucleus Wealth Team

Effective Ethical Investment with Peter Singer | Nucleus Investment Insights Podcast

In today's webinar, hear from Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investment Damien Klassen, Head of Operations Tim Fuller, and renowned ethicist Peter Singer as they cover "Effective ...
Tim Fuller

The problem with traditional ethical funds

Ethical investment inflows have doubled in 2019. But, the Wall Street Journal highlights a problem near to my heart: ethical investing is not the same to everyone.

Nucleus Investment Insights - Ethical Investment Essentials

This week's LIVE webinar (12:30pm AEST, Thursday 4th July) - we explain all things ethical investment. Defining ethics in investment What does investing ethically mean to a ...
Tim Fuller

Ethical super funds, unethical fees

From SuperRatings last week Lonsec has sustainable (AKA ethical or ESG) super funds charging high fees and underperforming:

Ethical Snake Oil

Environmental, social and governance investing, also known as ESG is a common way for investors to look to add ethics to their portfolio. A recent CLSA report highlights that ESG ...
Nucleus Wealth Team
Nucleus Wealth Team

Everything you need to know about Investing Ethically

Ethical investing is frankly confusing. There are plenty of good products, but also a number of products whose promoters may not be as ethical as the stocks they invest in...