Financially Material Factors
In their 2014 report, the Law Commission made clear that private sector pension trustees' fiduciary duty is to take account of financially material considerations, whatever their source. Where ESG considerations are financially materially, decision makers should take account of them. The Law Commission went on to say that this applies in exactly the same way as other risks in pension scheme investment, for example, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market risk, political and counter party risk.
More recently, the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment and Disclosure) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (the 2018 Regulations) that will apply to private sector pension trustees with effect from October 2019 defines financially material considerations as including, but not limited to, environmental, social and governance considerations, including climate change.
- Full name or Short Description
- Anything which impacts on the financial outcome of an investment
- Source of definition
- Law Commission
- Source and further information
- https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/pension-funds-and-social-investment/
- Classification
- Measure
- Category
- Environmental, Social, Governance
- Status
- Recommended
- Date created
- 01/Mar/2021
- Date updated
- 08/Apr/2021