The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has today published its fifth Responsible Investment report, which reinforces its commitment to promoting sustainability in the pensions industry and demonstrates the power industry engagement.
This provides broad guidelines within which voting decisions will be assessed and implemented on a case-by-case basis. A degree of flexibility is required when interpreting the guidelines to reflect specific market, company, and meeting circumstances.
Climate change is one of the biggest issues on the global agenda. One that has the potential to impact businesses, economies and people everywhere. We�re actively looking to manage the impact of climate change and its related risks and opportunities through our investment approach. We're committed to:
The policy should be considered alongside our Statement of Investment Principles (SIP), our Climate Change Policy and our overall RI framework and strategy�The SIP is the written statement governing our decisions about investments, and reflects the objectives and timeframes of our current and future beneficiaries and stakeholders.�
Beliefs As a long-term investor, we have�a duty to consider all financially material risk factors in our investment decisions, including climate-related. We believe climate change can materially impact businesses, markets and economies globally in a number of ways, from a societal perspective as well as environmental.
The PPF, UniSuper and APG Asset Management have announced the acquisition of Forico and a 170,000-hectare plantation forestry estate in Tasmania, from a New Forests managed fund.
In our first direct investment into the UK social housing sector we've helped Monmouthshire Housing Association secure an £85m deal to refinance its entire loan portfolio.
We are pleased to announce that we have appointed Claire Curtin as our new Head of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG).
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