social impact

Socially Responsible Investing

Partner Insight: Global social bonds can offer more impact

Impact investing offers investors the opportunity to pursue financial returns and social and environmental outcomes.

27 March 2024 • 2 min read

Partner Insight: How effective are impact investments?

Impact investing has transformed over the past decade, giving investors the opportunity to pursue both financial returns and social and environmental outcomes.

29 February 2024 • 2 min read

Delivering positive social outcomes from global fixed income investing

Current thinking on social factors in pension scheme bond investment

13 September 2023 • 18 min read

GMPF invests £10m to tackle local homelessness

The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) has invested £10m in a social impact fund launched by Resonance to tackle homelessness.

07 December 2020 • 1 min read

Social assets should be key on trustees' to-do list

Evita Zanuso looks at the role social assets can play in UK pension fund portfolios to help build back after the pandemic

01 October 2020 • 4 min read

Aon paper guides trustees to opportunities for public equity impact

Aon has published a paper offering pension scheme trustees insight into investment areas if they are looking for competitive financial returns and to deliver a positive social and environmental impact.

16 December 2019 • 1 min read

Investment

Government to work with industry on growing social impact investment

The government will encourage investors to support social impact programmes by working with the investments and saving industry, it has announced.

13 June 2018 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

DWP plans to consult on ESG fiduciary duties from June

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) expects to consult on trustees' legal duties to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks from next month.

09 May 2018 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

Pre-1997 benefits should not have statutory inflation protection, say half of respondents

Granting statutory protection to pre-1997 benefits in defined benefit (DB) schemes would be an unfair cost to sponsors and would force even more closures, according to this weeks' Pensions Buzz respondents.

12 April 2018 • 5 min read

Law and Regulation

FCA mulls expanding IGC remit with social investing duties

Independent governance committees (IGCs) may see their remit expanded to include reporting on social investing issues under Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans unveiled in its business plan today.

09 April 2018 • 4 min read