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In this week's Pensions Buzz, we want to know if you think it is fair that so much pressure around ESG and climate change is being put on pension schemes.

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has invested £85m in affordable housing in the North East of England on behalf of clients including pension funds.

The industry’s support for collective defined contribution (CDC) options is growing, according to research by Aon.

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).

Standard Life Aberdeen is set to rebrand as Abrdn as part of efforts in "reshaping" the business and its growth strategy.

Trustee time and resource is being eaten up by excessive requests for scheme data from company auditors, according to the Association of Professional Pension Trustees (APPT).

Professional Pensions rounds up some of the latest ESG and climate news from across the industry.

Professional Pensions is holding the second part of its defined contribution (DC) conference next Tuesday (27 April) between 9:30am and 11:45am.

Pension schemes must ensure a full range of ESG risk factors beyond just climate change have been considered, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) warned in a report yesterday (22 April).

A Treasury Select Committee report on net-zero transitions and the future of green finance has called on the government to consider climate labelling for financial products and ramp up efforts to tackle greenwashing.