ESG

The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has launched a research series focused on identifying practical ways to improve trustee and contract-based scheme provider engagement on ESG issues.

The industry has broadly backed proposals to require the largest schemes to publish climate risk disclosures but raised concerns about the workload of implementation as well as how to standardise the methodology used.

Nest has completed its plans to rid its investment portfolio of tobacco assets a year earlier than it had anticipated.

European pensions funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change related investment risk has surged, Mercer says.

The resilience of credit investors will be tested as the world recovers from Covid-19, says Colin Purdie.

Fixed income enjoys another strong quarter

Dalriada Trustees has appointed Minerva Analytics to assess its external asset managers’ ESG, voting and stewardship.

Independent investment manager Invesco will launch two Luxembourg-domiciled buy and maintain funds at UK defined benefit (DB) schemes.

Scottish Widows has invested £2bn of pension fund assets to become the inaugural investor in BlackRock’s authorised contractual scheme (ACS) Climate Transition World Equity Fund.

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