NZ Super-led group backs call to halt online extremism

Executives from the New Zealand Superannuation Fund were among delegates at Wednesday's (April 15) meeting in Paris, convened by New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and French president Emmanuel Macron to upscale the fight against the abuse of social media by extremists. The sovereign wealth fund now has a group of 55 pension funds with over $3 trillion of assets under management supporting its own initiative to tackle social media extremism. But it is also lending suppor…