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  • UK pension funds to be required to publish TCFD reports

    27 January 2021

    Large UK pension funds are set to be required to report in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures from October.

  • People Moves 4 December: IIGCC, AMNT, Tikehau Capital, UKSIF

    04 December 2020

  • Eurosif likely to set EU action plan as focus of new direction

    22 March 2019

    The European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) plans to mould its new strategy around implementation of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • People Moves: Gold Standard, Cicero, Investec AM and ShareAction

    30 November 2018

    Yvo de Boer has been announced as new president-elect of the Gold Standard Foundation Board, replacing David Shelmerdine.

  • UK pensions advised to pursue decarbonisation with climate risk checklist

    26 April 2018

    A checklist for pension fund trustees to consider climate risk in their investments has been launched which encourages UK schemes to adopt targets for reducing carbon-intensive holdings and consider divestment.

  • Climate-related risk will dent oil company valuation by 2020, fund managers predict

    25 April 2018

    About 90% of fund managers expect that the valuation of international oil companies (IOCs) will drop 'significantly' within two years because of energy transition risks such as new legislation, a survey of organisations with more than $13 trillion in combined assets has found.

  • UK pension funds could be required to state ESG policy

    18 December 2017

    UK pension trustees could be required to state their investment policies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, as well as their approach to voting and engagement, with the introduction of new regulation next year.

  • Investment consultants pledge to act on ESG guidance

    25 September 2017

    Recent regulatory guidance that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors should be taken into account by pension funds where they are financially material "puts trustees and their advisers under an obligation to react," according to two leading industry bodies.

  • UK regulator issues ESG guidance for defined-benefit pension schemes

    03 April 2017

    The UK pensions regulator has released guidance on responsible investment for trustees of defined-benefit (DB) pension funds.

  • Award-winning ESG analyst moves to new firm

    02 September 2016

    An award-winning environmental, social and governance (ESG) analyst is to move to a new employer, Environmental Finance can reveal.