2024/25 RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Welcome to the highlights of our recent Responsible Investment activities. Click the link to view our full Stewardship Report, packed full of case studies!
WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT (RI)
It is the strategy to incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance factors into investment decisions, with the aim of creating long-term value for clients and beneficiaries.
LOCAL CONNECTIONS
In response to national interest in how pension funds invest locally and in the UK, we delved into our membership stats and developed a new Investing in the UK Report highlighting our UK and Wiltshire investments. 27% of the Funds investments are in the UK
BRANCHING INTO BIODIVERSITY
Our net zero by 2050 target and wider investment beliefs mean that Biodiversity is an area where we need to take action. We have been considering biodiversity and nature through a number of different lenses, both looking inward at our own holdings and engaging with the industry more widely.
UNDERSTAND OUR EXPOSURE TO RISKS
UNDERSTANDING OUR INVESTMENTS
We regularly make site visits to better understand our investments, and to hold our investment managers to account regularly sharing these as case studies with our members and employers.
6 award wins at national ceremonies! Including: Best Biodiversity statement, Stewardship campaign and strategy, Investment Innovation!
Four of the funds top emitting companies were divested – read all about this in the full report