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ESG for UK pension schemes: imminent deadlines and future changes

Pension scheme trustees are rightly focusing on key operational priorities during the current Covid-19 global health crisis – but it's important not to lose sight of a number of upcoming changes relating to investment issues, stewardship and governance.

Many of these changes relate to a wider focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and it’s clear that the effects of the pandemic have reconfigured how we look at those issues.

Are you ready for these changes, with the right groundwork in place? In this briefing we provide a reminder of what developments are in place already, what's still to come, and some thoughts on how investment beliefs, and the strategies that flow from them, may be reconfigured in light of Covid-19.