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      This webinar will bring together views from actuaries, lawyers, administrators, trustees and data experts to look at the pragmatic, collaborative solutions that are open to schemes to solve the GMP equalisation challenges in 2021. It will assess the individual challenges schemes face with equalisations and provide some practical options that are available to resolve these issues.

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Councils face '£2bn' pension fund hole from failed oil investments
Councils face '£2bn' pension fund hole from failed oil investments

More than £1.75bn has been wiped from the pension funds of councils across the UK after three years of crashing oil investments, research shows.

  • Investment
  • 03 December 2020
Pensions schemes feel the force of FTSE 100 plunge
Pensions schemes feel the force of FTSE 100 plunge

Institutional investors are continuing to flounder after the FTSE 100 opened the week down 8.72%, crashing into technical bear market territory.

  • Investment
  • 09 March 2020
Environment Agency fund joins global push for environmental impact disclosure
Environment Agency fund joins global push for environmental impact disclosure

The Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF) has joined a coalition of 88 investors to demand companies disclose more information on environmental impact.

  • Investment
  • 17 June 2019
Sir Ed Davey: Pension funds must divest from fossil fuels and stop worsening the climate crisis
Sir Ed Davey: Pension funds must divest from fossil fuels and stop worsening the climate crisis

A former energy and climate change secretary has said that by continuing to invest in fossil fuel firms, pension schemes are just making the climate change crisis even worse.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 22 May 2019
It's time to get serious about sustainability
It's time to get serious about sustainability

Wolfgang Kuhn says pension funds must considered the real-world impacts of their investments

  • Investment
  • 07 February 2019
Schemes urged to put pressure on BP and Shell over executive pay
Schemes urged to put pressure on BP and Shell over executive pay

Schemes have been urged to vote against executive pay proposals at both Shell and BP in protest against incentives to increase short term production.

  • Investment
  • 08 May 2017
FTSE 100 holds onto gains as BP hit by 'final' $5.2bn oil spill charge
FTSE 100 holds onto gains as BP hit by 'final' $5.2bn oil spill charge

UK blue chips up 0.2%

  • Investment
  • 26 July 2016
UK schemes join global battle against mining giants over climate change
UK schemes join global battle against mining giants over climate change

Some of UK's largest pension schemes and fund managers have called on Anglo American, Glencore and Rio Tinto to be more transparent over climate change risks.

  • Investment
  • 02 February 2016
Church Commissioners urge ExxonMobil to disclose climate risks
Church Commissioners urge ExxonMobil to disclose climate risks

Church Commissioners for England has co-filed a shareholder resolution at ExxonMobil to force the US oil and gas giant to disclose how it will cope in a lower carbon world.

  • Investment
  • 19 January 2016
Longevity increase could increase deficits 50%

Rising longevity poses a much greater threat to companies with defined benefit (DB) pension schemes than low interest rates, Fitch Ratings has warned.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 28 August 2015
Impax appoints former BP pension head Sally Bridgeland

Impax Asset Management has appointed Sally Bridgeland and Lindsey Brace Martinez as non-executive directors as Mark White steps down from a similar role.

  • Industry
  • 04 August 2015
99% of Shell investors back climate change risk resolution

Shareholders have backed a resolution brought by a group of investors including 15 UK pension schemes to force Shell to measure and manage its exposure to climate change risk.

  • Investment
  • 20 May 2015
BP climate change resolution gets 98% backing

Almost all of BP's shareholders have voted to force the company to disclose the risks it faces from climate change.

  • Corporate Governance
  • 16 April 2015
How and why schemes should get proactive on stewardship

ShareAction’s Catherine Howarth on shareholder resolutions

  • Investment
  • 09 April 2015
Will Shell's acquisition of BG affect dividends to schemes?

Royal Dutch Shell is set to buy its smaller rival BG Group for almost £50bn in the biggest deal in the energy sector for decades.

  • Corporate Governance
  • 08 April 2015
BP tells shareholders to back climate change risk resolution

BP has told its shareholders to back a resolution brought against the company urging it to disclose risks associated with climate change.

  • Investment
  • 06 February 2015
Why pension schemes should do more to fight climate change

Catherine Howarth explains why schemes cannot afford to ignore climate change risk

  • Investment
  • 29 January 2015
Shell tells shareholders to back climate change risk resolution

Shell has told its shareholders to support a resolution brought against the company to force it to disclose risks associated with climate change.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 29 January 2015
Schemes challenge BP and Shell on risks to climate change

A group of more than 150 shareholders including 13 UK public schemes have filed resolutions to force BP and Shell to disclose risks associated with climate change.

  • Corporate Governance
  • 21 January 2015
Ex-BP Pension Trustees chief joins 300 Club

Sally Bridgeland has become a member of the global investment professional group, the 300 Club.

  • Appointments
  • 11 August 2014
Ex-BP scheme chief exec joins Dutch consultancy

Former BP Pension Trustees chief executive officer Sally Bridgeland is joining Avida International as a senior adviser.

  • Appointments
  • 23 July 2014
BP Pension Trustees' Bridgeland exits CEO role

BP Pension Trustees chief executive officer (CEO) Sally Bridgeland has left the business and will assume "portfolio roles" after a break in her career, a spokesman has confirmed.

  • Appointments
  • 23 April 2014
BP Pension Scheme in supermarket deal

The BP Pension Scheme has purchased a Worcester-based Sainsbury's supermarket store from M&G Investments in a deal worth £27.25m.

  • Industry
  • 07 April 2014
Solvency II boosts FTSE100 insurers' DB funding levels

Insurance companies in the FTSE100 have some of the best defined benefit (DB) scheme funding levels as a result of Solvency II, research from JLT Employee Benefits (JLTEB) shows.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 04 November 2013
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