BVK appoints F&C for shareholder engagement services

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GERMANY - Bayerische Versorgungskammer, Germany's largest public pension fund, has appointed F&C Investments to provide shareholder engagement services for its equities and bond holdings.

F&C will provide its responsible engagement overlay programme to help the €48bn scheme establish a sustainability strategy. BVK, which in April 2010 became the first in Germany to sign up to the...

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