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News
UK investment consultants form joint working group on sustainability
Twelve leading investment consulting firms in the UK have established the Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group, with the aim of seeking to improve su…
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Blog
How easy is it to switch to an ESG aligned passive fund?
In this blog, our ESG team explores passive ESG funds, including the possible first step in reducing an investor’s carbon and integrating ESG into their investment …
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Blog
Are your investments going up in smoke?
Tobacco is a financial risk, however, it is also an asset that members of funds are increasingly finding unpalatable. For both these reasons we are seeing clients i…
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Blog
Getting ahead on governance: pension scheme climate disclosures
Whilst trustees need to state their policies on ESG and climate change. Now the Government’s amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill 2020 are going to take things fu…
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Blog
ESG measurement – hot data for a cooler world
The changing climate means past performance and methods of measurement, are becoming increasingly inadequate for investment decision making when used in isolation. …
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News
Welcome guidance from The Pensions Regulator gives confidence in transferring to a superfund
The Pensions Regulator has today launched 'tough new interim regime for emerging superfund pension market' which will give employers and trustees confidence in the …
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Blog
Getting your ESG and LDI journey in to focus after the effects of Covid-19
Helping you get your ESG and LDI journey in focus, managing risks early and ensuring it reflects not just today’s Covid-19 and climate trends but the needs of the f…
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Briefing
There is more than one C in ESG
The landscape has materially changed recently and not all of it has to do with Covid-19. 2020 has also been pressured by another ‘C’: climate change. Or, more accur…
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Blog
ESG beyond exclusions
In the pensions world 2019 will be remembered as the dawn of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). However, concepts like the impact investing, socially respo…
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Blog
Expanding the investment toolkit: Buy-ins
Large funding deficits and low yields have meant that annuities haven’t been considered a suitable asset over the last decade. However, that picture is changing, sl…