By Susanna Rust2021-04-21T14:29:00+01:00
A group of influential UK pension investors have developed a reporting tool to help them and other asset owners meet their responsible investment and stewardship requirements “efficiently and effectively”.
The pension funds worked with Chronos Sustainability, a consultancy, on the tool, which focuses on reporting obligations linked to the reporting and assessment framework for the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and the Stewardship Code and implementation statements in the UK.
It maps the reporting requirements against each other, allowing users to identify elements of one set of reporting requirements that could meet another, and providing a checklist of requirements.
2 U.K. pension execs take on ESG investing in new podcast
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Want to know what pension fund executives really think about developments in responsible investment? Now you can find out, thanks to a new podcast launched by two U.K. executives who focus on the topic.
David Hickey, portfolio manager at the £8 billion ($11 billion) Lothian Pension Fund, Edinburgh, and Adam Matthews, director of ethics and engagement at the more than £3 billion Church of England Pensions Board, London, hosted their first Talking Responsibly podcast on Feb. 11.
The two are both passionate about the work they do in responsible investment and spend a lot of time discussing the nuance, with one another and others, Mr. Hickey said.
Ross Trustees –
Geoff McKenzie has been appointed senior trustee manager at the UK professional trustee and pensions services firm. He joins from
Clarks, where he was the shoe company’s director of global pensions. He has also had senior in-house roles with other brands such as Vodafone and Barclays.
Ross Trustees said he has considerable experience across a broad range of areas, including managing the merging and restructuring of pension schemes within benefits packages, outsourcing scheme administration and developing and executing member communications programmes.
McKenzie said: “Ross Trustees enjoys a terrific reputation as one of the leading providers of professional pension trusteeship and associated services in the market. There is a growing need for expert professional trusteeship and outsourced pension management services and I look forward to bringing my insights to help support the firm’s clients.”