Well done to the AMNT (Association of Member Nominated Trustees) for this excellent stance on the refusal of many pension fund managers to allow trustees and pensioners to hold them to account for the way they vote in company Annual General Meeti…Read more…
Decent pension provision is not dying out – it’s being murdered
A headline in last Friday’s “Professional Pensions” was “DB surplus hits record high of £382bn on best estimate basis, says First Actuarial”
It is becoming increasingly clear that the the huge decline in decent pension provision in the UK (employ…Read more…
We need transparency on charges
This is my latest opinion article for Professional Pensions magazine.
“John Gray asks why UK pension schemes do not have access to important information on charges.
Earlier this month I went to the CWC annual conference in Amsterdam. This was f…Read more…
AMNT Summer Conference Monday 13 June “Do trustees delegate too much”?
Click here to come if you are an AMNT member or member nominated pension trustee.
Sessions on the agenda include.
Paul Trickett is Chair of Railpen Investments as well as carrying out a number of other Trustee and NED appointments in the financial se…Read more…
Union rights ARE an ESG issue!
An intelligent and thought provoking post as ever by Capital Stewardship blogger Tom P here (and below) on the failure (I could be a little more direct) of the ESG (Environmental, Soci…Read more…
Red Line Voting gets Green light to Save Planet, Respect Human Rights and Stop Fat Cats
I was really pleased to take part in the debate and vote in favour of the AMNT’s Red Lines initiative which was approved at our summer conference on Wednesday this week. They cover a wide range of environmental, social and corporate governance iss…Read more…
AMNT Summer Conference: London 24 June 2015
“The AMNT summer conference is set to take a historic step in the advancement of the rights of pension schemes to protect their investments by actively directing fund managers’ engagement and voting at company meetings.
This is an extremely important …Read more…
Red Line Voting
“I’m writing to invite you to play a part in bringing into being, on 24th June, a new asset-owner approach to engagement and voting. It will open the way to restoring asset owner control over engagement and voting policies relating to investments held in pooled funds.
The Association of…Read more…
View from the Coalface – The role of trade unionists as pension trustees
This picture is from the panel seminar last week at the “Workplace Pension 2015” conference in Birmingham.
I was with Bill Trythall, who is a fellow AMNT union appointed trustee on the massive USS Pension scheme. The chair was Louise Farrand from “En…Read more…
AMNT stall at Workplace Pensions Live 2015
On Thursday I went for a flying visit to Edgbaston, Birmingham to take part in a panel on the second day of Workplace Pensions conference.
The theme of the panel was “View from the coalfield – This session will explore the role of unions on trustee bo…Read more…
Red Lines – How to start an Investment Governance Revolution
(this post was pulled in January since I didn’t realise that we had to wait until formal launch of Red Lines which took place yesterday. I will post further on this “revolutionary” proposal)
Picture is from last weeks workshop on “Red Lines” run joint…Read more…
Why is there no sense of crisis about the future of the LGPS?
The AMNT yesterday sent in a response (below) to the Government (DCLG) consultation on proposed new regulations on how to run the new look Local Government Pension scheme (LGPS).
The LGPS is collectively the biggest funded Pension scheme in the UK and…Read more…