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A number of major pension schemes institutional investors are now openly targeting a net-zero investment strategy – with the BT Pension Scheme and Nest among those making pledges over the past few months.
Pension schemes are now facing increasing government, regulatory, and member demand to manage the financial risks associated with the anthropogenic consequences of the environmental crisis.
But how best to manage this transition to net-zero? And, in the rush to invest in carbon friendly assets, are investors potentially missing out on potential returns generated by the transition theme, investing in assets that may not be carbon neutral but have the potential to significantly improve their environmental credentials over time.
This webinar will discuss at the transition theme, look at the opportunity set available and ask how this can help schemes achieve superior returns while moving towards a net-zero portfolio.
Jonathan is editor of Professional Pensions and has been reporting on UK occupational pensions since 2001. He has won a number of awards during his career, most recently the SPP Trade Journalist of the Year Award in 2019. He is also holder of the PMI's Retirement Provision Certificate.
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Amandeep Shihn leads on emerging markets equity and sustainable investment manager research within Willis Towers Watson’s manager research team. His particular areas of focus are researching global, emerging market and Asian equity strategies and sustainable investing. In this role he is involved in portfolio construction for Willis Towers Watson’s global client base as well as overseeing the firm’s assessment of ESG topics and investor stewardship in the research process. Prior to joining the research team, he was a member of Willis Towers Watson’s investment strategy team where he worked on strategic asset allocation and liability management projects. Shihn graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc in Economics and Imperial College Business School with MSc in Finance.
Pauline Grange is a portfolio manager within the Global Equities team. She took up this role in 2007 and is currently lead portfolio manager of the Threadneedle Global Sustainable Outcomes and Threadneedle World Equity strategies and deputy portfolio manager of the Columbia Select Global Equity fund. She also heads the telecoms and utilities sector research team and is the deputy head of the technology sector research team.
Before joining the company, Pauline was a global equity portfolio manager for Investec Asset Management.
Pauline has a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Finance from the University of Cape Town. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Morten Nillson is chief executive of BT Pension Scheme Management, a role he took up in September 2018. In this role, he leads all aspects of support to the trustees of the BT scheme, including asset and liability management, operations, administration and other member services.
Nilsson joined the pensions and investment industry in 2001 and spent over a decade with the £90bn Danish pension scheme ATP, where he held a series of senior positions across administration, investments, and product and business development. In 2010, Nilsson moved to London to found Now Pensions and, as chief executive, built it into one of the largest occupational defined contribution providers in the UK. He left Now Pensions in August 2017.
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