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Pension Schemes Act
Disclosure requirements and the member engagement challenge

Do the increased transparency and disclosure requirements for pension schemes enhance member engagement?  Most of us living and breathing pensions in our day jobs would instinctively say “no”.  The latest additions to the disclosure...

ESG and climate change for pension funds

Environmental, Social and corporate Governance (ESG) factors in pension scheme investing continue to dominate headlines and trustee duties. Our new guide for 2020, ESG and climate change for pension funds, considers how trustees should...

Sackers ESG survey for pension schemes: Summary report – key themes and Sackers views

In July 2019 we surveyed 102 trustees and pension scheme managers to gain a better understanding of what pension funds are doing, or intending to do, in response to the various new and updated regulations surrounding environmental, social...

Further changes to SIPs and investment disclosure

Introduction The Shareholders Rights Directive (“SRDII”) had to be transposed into UK law by 10 June 2019. On 6 June 2019, the Government published the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment and Disclosure) (Amendment) Regulations...

ESG and climate change for pension funds – Putting the law into practice

Read our 2020 guide, ‘ESG and climate change for pension funds’ here.  Our latest guide on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), includes a full action plan for trustees, empowering them to get their scheme...

Where next for ESG? – An evolving approach for trustees

Read our 2020 guide, ‘ESG and climate change for pension funds’ here.  Environmental, Social and corporate Governance (ESG), has been one of a number of issues vying for trustee attention in the last few years, often with...