Tuesday 22 May 2012

Poll

Should the government commit to a ten year moratorium on key pension rule changes?:

Ethical investment

Government and industry urged to ‘grasp the nettle’ on sustainable investment

In parliament tomorrow, UKSIF, the sustainable investment and finance association will call on government, pension funds and the wider financial industry to make finance sector expertise in sustainability a strategic asset for the UK. The trade body will say that the new Kay Review into UK...
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Nest awards ethical and sharia mandates to F&C and HSBC

Nest Corporation has selected F&C Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Management to run its ethical and sharia mandates. The Nest ethical mandate has been awarded to F&C Asset Management and the Nest sharia mandate has been awarded to HSBC Global Asset Management. Nest’s...
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INVESTMENT Climate crunch!

Schemes should not be diverted by the credit crunch from socially responsible investment urges Ann Ellis, climate change consultant

We have just seen further encouraging evidence of foresight and long term thinking in the UK pensions industry with the move by engineering support services group, Babcock International Group, to hedge the longevity liability of its pension scheme. Where one pension scheme leads, evidence...
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SRI INVESTMENT Doing well by doing good

Socially responsible investment is increasingly becoming a duty for trustees rather than simply an option argues Barbara Evans, RCM

In a world where 240 million people are alleged to be unemployed in 2009 (International Labour Organisation, Jan 2009); where unchecked global climate change could shrink global GDP by up to 20% (The Stern Review, 2006); and where consumers from both developing and developed markets report a...
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Social benefits

Robert West and Nicola Hughes, Baker & McKenzie, weigh up the ethical considerations in pension scheme investment

More than 25 years have elapsed since the landmark ruling of Cowan v Scargill appeared to constrain trustees from including ethical considerations in their investment policy. It is ten years since pension scheme trustees were first required to take note of socially responsible investment (SRI)...
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Highly regarded guide

Guide to financial markets by Marc Levinson (250 pages), ISBN 978 184 668 173 8 £20 from www.profilebooks.com

The fifth edition of this highly regarded guide by Marc Levinson, a former finance editor of The Economist, brings the reader right up to speed with the latest developments in financial instruments and provides a clear and incisive guide to this complex world that even those who work in it often...
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