People's Pension to allocate £15bn into 'climate aware' investment strategies

Jasmine Urquhart
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Strategy will mean 70 per cent of assets in pension provider's default global investments fund will be aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5C, it says

The People's Pension has today announced plans to allocate £15bn of its assets under management (AUM) into "climate aware" investment strategies, in a move that is set to see the pension provider divest...

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