All UK Sustainable Investment and Finance (UKSIF) articles
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FeaturesIs any sovereign worth the greenium?
Issuance of green sovereign debt is rocketing and investors remain prepared to pay a greenium, but standard paper still has a role to play.
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NewsTCFD disclosures to be mandatory for UK’s largest financial institutions
On the go: Britain’s largest companies and financial institutions will legally have to report on climate-related risks and opportunities from April 6 2022, the government has announced.
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NewsUKSIF urges pensions sector to ramp up sustainability
On the go: The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association has proposed a series of measures to increase sustainability in the pensions sector, as part of its new policy version.
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NewsTPR criticised for year-long delay in collection of ESG statements
A Conservative peer and former pensions minister has hit out at delays in the Pensions Regulator’s efforts to police the content of pension schemes’ statements of investment principles.
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Opperman follows through on share-voting promise
On the go: The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a new working group to examine ways to give investors in pooled fund products greater influence in voting shares and securities owned on their behalf.
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How can schemes make ESG compliance meaningful?
Analysis: The UK pension industry’s first attempt at compliance with new sustainability reporting rules has left campaigners unimpressed, to say the very least.
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NewsRegulator’s ESG letter ‘as vague as trustees’ statements’
The Pensions Regulator’s response to schemes not publishing newly required statements of investment principles has been lambasted by the non-profit that first uncovered the extent of non-compliance.
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NewsWhat are the risks of flouting ESG statement rules?
Analysis: A report into trustees’ first efforts on the new statements of investment principles has yielded damning results. But what can regulators, or even members, actually do about it?
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Trustees urged to hold investment advisers to account on ESG issues
On the go: Trustees should hold investment consultants to account on environmental, social and governance issues, the Association of Member Nominated Trustees and the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association have argued.
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Consultants commit to flagging ESG factors
Sixteen investment consultancy firms have said that they will seek to ensure that pension schemes take into account environmental, social and governance factors where they are financially material.
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HSBC pioneers ESG in DC with £1.85bn multi-factor fund
The HSBC Bank UK Pension Scheme has selected a multi-factor fund with a tilt towards low-carbon businesses as the equity component of its default offering, a switch that will see £1.85bn of defined contribution savers' money invested in line with green principles.
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Strathclyde joins antibiotics campaign as investors up engagement
The Strathclyde Pension Fund is one of 54 institutional investors that have launched an engagement campaign aimed at stopping overuse of antibiotics in the supply chains of corporations in the UK and US.
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NewsIndustry concern over government's 'dangerous' ESG proposals
A proposal that would empower the government to intervene in local government pension investment decisions where they contradict British foreign policy has raised concern in the pensions industry.
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OpinionHow smaller schemes can flex their shareholder muscles
Pension scheme trustees have long faced criticism for a lack of stewardship over their investments.