Coal Pension Trustees - British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme and Mineworkers' Pension Scheme: recommendations

RI policy, implementation and monitoring

With no SIP or policy documents available publicly, or otherwise disclosed to FairPensions, it is unclear whether schemes administered by the Coal Pension Trustees have any detailed RI policy, and if so, whether comprehensive attention is paid to policy implementation and performance monitoring. If this is not the case then we would recommend that steps are taken which include:

• Establishing a detailed RI policy
• Establishing clear measures to ensure fund managers' performance on ESG issues is carefully monitored and regularly assessed.
• Incorporating assessment of the capacity of fund mangers to carry out the Scheme's ESG policy into its fund manger selection process, and into its investment management agreements
• Consideration of membership of the UN PRI, both for itself and as a screen re fund manager selection

Transparency

We would recommend a dedicated public section for RI on the schemes' websites, to include disclosure of:

• The Statement of Investment Principles
• Detailed statements of RI policy, policy implementation and performance monitoring
• Full voting records and summary voting analysis
• Specific and detailed ESG engagement strategy, and reporting
• The Scheme's annual reports, which should include a detailed section on responsible investment.

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If you are a member of this pension scheme, why not email your pension scheme to ask whether they have implemented all or any of these recommendations.