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Click here to read FairPensions' response to the draft OECD guidelines on Pension Fund Governance. here

Read our annual benchmarks on pension fund and investment manager engagement and transparency here

What is Responsible Investment? here



Read FairPensions' report on the Responsible Investment performance of the 30 largest occupational pension funds in the UK (released Monday 27th April 2009)

We meet with pension funds and fund managers regularly to discuss transparency and engagement.

_ We meet with pension funds and fund managers regularly to discuss transparency and engagement. We meet with pension funds and fund managers regularly to discuss transparency and engagement.

To help pension fund trustees and fund managers adopt responsible investment, FairPensions has produced best practice guides and industry benchmarks.

_ To help pension fund trustees and fund managers adopt responsible investment, FairPensions has produced best practice guides and industry benchmarks. To help pension fund trustees and fund managers adopt responsible investment, FairPensions has produced best practice guides and industry benchmarks.

FairPensions believes that fund managers should vote all of their shares, worldwide.

_ FairPensions believes that fund managers should vote all of their shares, worldwide. FairPensions believes that fund managers should vote all of their shares, worldwide.

Pension funds and fund managers should invest for the long-term, taking issues like climate change into account in all their investment decisions

_ Pension funds and fund managers should invest for the long-term, taking issues like climate change into account in all their investment decisions Pension funds and fund managers should invest for the long-term, taking issues like climate change into account in all their investment decisions

We believe that pension funds and fund managers should demonstrate their internal mechanisms are effectively risk-proofing their investments, by taking into account Environmental, Social and Governance issues

_ We believe that pension funds and fund managers should demonstrate their internal mechanisms are effectively risk-proofing their investments, by taking into account Environmental, Social and Governance issues We believe that pension funds and fund managers should demonstrate their internal mechanisms are effectively risk-proofing their investments, by taking into account Environmental, Social and Governance issues



"The fiduciary barrier to further adoption of responsible investment practices has been discredited." - Mercer Investment Consulting

"It may be a breach of fiduciary duty to fail to take account of ESG considerations" - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

"Broader considerations such as ESG issues are consistent with [pension funds'] requirement to act in the best financial interests of members" - Watson Wyatt.

What is Responsible Investment, and why is it important to a Pension Fund?

Responsible Investment (RI) refers to investment where environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations are taken into account in the selection, retention and realisation of investments and the responsible use of rights (such as voting rights) attached to investments. RI recognises that investors' financial objectives are inextricably linked with their concerns about ESG issues. RI objectives are typically achieved through engagement with companies; other approaches include screening and positive selection.