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  • Profile: Peter Michaelis, Alliance Trust

    14 September 2015

    Alliance Trust put its faith in environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics when it promoted Peter Michaelis to take charge of its equities investments, in September 2014.

  • Legal & General pledges further investments in UK renewables

    18 August 2015

    Insurance company Legal & General (L&G) plans to increase its UK investments in renewable energy, despite recently announced changes to national support mechanisms, said CEO Nigel Wilson.

  • UK's EAPF launches £280m low-carbon fund

    09 June 2015

    The pension fund of the UK's Environment Agency (EAPF) has launched a new low-carbon fund benchmarked on the MSCI Low Carbon Target Index

  • Pension funds voice frustrations over green infrastructure opportunities

    16 October 2013

    Long-term investments in green infrastructure should be a natural choice for pension funds, but numerous barriers are preventing finance flowing at scale, a conference heard.