Joe Salomone is the founding member of Salomone Accountants. After gaining a Business degree majoring in Accounting from the Queensland University of Technology, Joe went on to pursue a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning at the Securities Institute of Australia. Since then he has become a qualified CPA, and has over 20 years experience working in business services and taxation.
Joe specialises in assisting Small Business clients in the areas of taxation, financial accounts, tax planning and restructuring. He also has vast experience in assisting clients who have investment and rental properties and share investments.
Professional and Administrative Staff
Salomone Accountants is a flexible workplace employer. This flexibility allows staff the opportunity to fulfill a work/life balance which creates a happy work environment.
Investment has been made in the professional development of all staff at Salomone Accountants and the experienced staff are able to offer clients a friendly and professional approach. All staff endeavour to provide professional and accurate advice to clients in a timely manner.
Whether you are a newcomer to the workforce or have been working full time for 30 years, you must have come across the concept of superannuation. Chances are, you’ve already been steadily building your retirement funds in one of the 500 Australian superannuation funds but are still unfamiliar with how exactly your super is being managed and where your super fund is investing your money in.
With the beginning of a new decade and social issues on the rise, it is time to take a more conscious stance on what you are doing with your super and what causes you are supporting through the employment of your money through your super fund.
A recent investigation into Australian super funds by the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), released in February 2020, found that 50 of the largest super funds in Australia are proxy voting against local climate-change initiatives. These organisations are instead approaching climate change from a global perspective, whilst ignoring more pressing domestic challenges to reduce carbon emissions..
The lack of support from Australian super funds for localised climate action is growing problematic, as Australia fails to address its appalling record on carbon emissions and is falling behind new-age global goals to fight against environmental degradation and climate change.
In contrast, some of Australia’s most environmentally and socially conscious super funds lack the reputation to attract long-term users. To look for more environmentally friendly Australian super funds, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) grades supers based on their ethical contributions and makes this information available to the public.
Instead of mindlessly joining Australian super funds that are neglecting growingly problematic domestic climate change issues, Australians need to become more conscious of our indirect actions and super investments. Rather than investing in an unethical super fund, looking into self-managed super funds may be another good option. We need to learn to take matters into our own hands and become more socially conscious of where exactly our money goes.
