Article 5VK5Q Australia’s Future Fund has invested over $90m in weapons manufacturer Raytheon

Australia’s Future Fund has invested over $90m in weapons manufacturer Raytheon

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Ben Doherty and Ben Butler
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Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested more than $90m in weapons manufacturer Raytheon Technologies, whose laser-guided bomb was allegedly used in an airstrike on a detention centre in Yemen this month killing nearly 100 civilians.

Documents released under freedom of information laws show the Future Fund, which invests on behalf of the Australian government, had $91.22m invested in Raytheon as of December last year.

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