Fiduciary Duty for a Changing Climate

Last week the Financial Markets Law Committee published a paper intended to help Pension Fund trustees integrate climate and sustainability issues into their investment decision making processes.

By  Lauren Juliff
ARTICLE · PUBLISHED 13.02.2024

This offered an overdue and long-awaited update to the concept of fiduciary duty as we navigate an unprecedented global economic transition. Lauren Juliff, Climate and Sustainability Product Lead, Head of UK Institutional comments on key takeaways from the paper and how this may help modernise interpretations of fiduciary duty for our changing climate.

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