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Stewardship roundup: tailings dam update, asset manager priorities
CEPB provides update on third anniversary of Brumadinho disaster
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European pension players turn to Asia to drive climate ‘breakthroughs’
Aviva, BMO, Fidelity, LAPFF, LGIM, and PGGM are founding members of new engagement platform
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UK roundup: LGPS Central emerging market bond fund launched
Plus: LAPFF seeks assurances over Arizona copper mine project
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Ethos includes ‘Say on Climate’ vote in guidelines
LAPFF also announced support for the campaign, in time for the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement last week
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IAS 1 faces UK endorsement challenge, LAPFF warns FRC
Once the UK leaves EU institutions at the end of this year, accounting standards will be handled by a new UK endorsement body
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ESG roundup: PRI enters ‘landmark’ collaboration on ESG reporting
Plus: big rise in number of pension plans formalising ESG beliefs; LAPFF, Australians on Rio Tino cave blast bonus cuts
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LAPFF backs concerns over Rio Tinto’s improved accountability
Questions raised about both the governance and human rights due diligence procedures
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LAPFF warns IASB proposals fail to satisfy UK post-Brexit legal test
The forum said that without ‘further substantial changes’ the new IFRS ‘as it stands is un-endorseable’.
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LGPS Central’s Segars extols resilience after lockdown fund launch
Asset managers with poor diversity won’t make it onto our books, UK pensions pool tells IPE event
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Local authority pension group calls for dissent at Exxon AGM
LAPFF says voting recommendation due to company blocking shareholder proposal from CA100+ investors
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ESG roundup: New COVID-19 bill to provide legal certainty about AGMs [updated]
Plus: ESG metrics, scores moves; COVID-19 corporate governance expectations; Folksam green bond purchase; Stewardship reporting
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Accounting roundup: ESMA addresses IFRS 9 COVID-19 implications
Plus: IASB delays insurance accounting standard; FRC reports on Kingman implementation progress
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Institutional investors’ delegation to visit tailings dam communities
Investors hearing ‘radically divergent’ accounts of disasters and follow-up action
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Pension fund group ‘brings mining community voice’ to investors
Direct exchange comes after positive feedback from investors to information relayed by the association
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FRC board warns over government delays to budget sign-off
Delays to agreeing the audit regulator’s budget for 2019-20 could hamper work on the transition to the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority
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Local authority pension funds back UK audit market reform proposals
But long-standing critics rue missed opportunities
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UK to replace audit regulator after damning review
Investors voice support as Kingman review to be enacted by government
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UK audit inquiry reignites ‘illegal dividends’ dispute
UK and international rules on distributable reserves have ‘inconsistencies’, accountancy body admits, reigniting long-running debate
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Public pension funds ‘underwhelmed’ by managers on ESG
LAPFF report ‘throws down the gauntlet’ for managers to up their stewardship
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LAPFF chair Ian Greenwood dies
Bradford Council and local government colleagues pay tribute to chair of Northern Pool and West Yorkshire Pension Fund