'Shielding our customers': Scottish Widows announces £440m divestment from carbon-intensive companies

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Scottish Widows today announced a new exclusions policy targeting firms that derive more than a tenth of their revenue from thermal coal and tar sands

Pensions and insurance giant Scottish Widows today committed to divest almost half a billion pounds from companies that have failed to meet its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, while...

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