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Smart Pension has committed to net-zero emissions “well ahead of 2050”, and plans to halve its emissions “significantly earlier” than the Paris Climate Agreement deadline of 2030.

The Asset Management Exchange (AMX) and DWS have launched an investment solution which allows schemes in pooled funds to express their stewardship preferences.

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.

Defined benefit (DB) pension scheme sponsors issued 249 profit warnings last year, 90% of which were specifically related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to EY.

Hymans Robertson has acquired Bath Actuarial Consulting (BAC) in a bid to boost its corporate consulting business.

Manifest-Minerva's Thomas Bolger takes a look at key issues at upcoming AGMs, focusing this month on issues at Future, the FTSE-listed publishing group.

Savers withdrew £9.4bn flexibly from their retirement pots during 2020, data released by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has shown.

This week’s top stories included the Legal & General Group UK Senior Pension Scheme’s £400m assured payment policy deal, and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association appointed six members to its policy board.

The Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) has launched a guide to help trustees assess their investment consultants’ climate competency.

Proposals put forward by the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) to pass pension data directly to HMRC will likely help savers but add millions more to the cost of pension tax relief, Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) says.