FairPensions and ASH join against tobacco investment

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FairPensions and Action on Smoking and Health have joined forces to write an investor briefing on fiduciary duty and the tobacco industry.

The collaboration follows the revelation in August that Kent County Council’s pension scheme had invested £24m in the tobacco industry. The fund argued it was fulfilling its fiduciary duty to se...

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