Focus has shifted to the ‘social’ part of ESG, says Hope William-Smith, but this has its own challenges for trustees.

Here it is, our monthly digest of the most important pension articles Professional Pensions has written and published over the last month, along with some contextual notes.

The rationale used to ultimately assess whether certain contribution notices can be issued needs further fine tuning, leading industry associations say.

GLIL Infrastructure has partnered with London-based Arcus Infrastructure Partners to purchase energy infrastructure provider Smart Meter Assets 1 (SMA).

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has launched a podcast series which will focus on ESG and the role of pensions through a social purpose lens.

Octopus Renewables has acquired two operational UK biomass power plants in one of the largest domestic deals of its kind.

BlackRock has launched a fund designed to simplify ESG investing through the focus on factors demonstrating materiality.

The financial impact of fiduciary management (FM) decisions on pension funding positions means funds need a better understanding of how knock-on impacts appear, Barnett Waddingham warns.

Buck has announced the launch of an ESG dashboard for pension schemes as a tool for meeting Pension Schemes Act compliance requirements set out in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations.

It will take too long to save into defined contribution (DC) pensions to keep retirement savings steady and offset the loss of defined benefit (DB) income, according to Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP).