Environmental, Social and Governance

HS Trustees is a leading voice in the drive for sustainable investment solutions across the UK pensions industry.  Links to various articles, videos and podcasts that we have written or contributed can be found at the bottom of this page. We believe that collaboration is key and are working with other Trustees and Trustee firms to drive change and find solutions for pension schemes. This has led to being shortlisted for Trustee Innovation at the PMI Pinnacle awards in November 2024.

Collaboration and charity work

HS Trustees has committed resources to work with experts in the areas of Stewardship, Climate Change, Diversity (including the #ethnicitypaygap), Social issues (including #Foodiscare) and is supportive of industry collaboration, including being involved in, and driving, new groups to address specific issues. Here are some quotes from the organisations and charities mentioned above.

‘Members of smaller UK pension schemes have too often missed out when it comes to active stewardship of their assets. It’s brilliant to see HS Trustees committing to ensure that the fund managers for their schemes step up on stewardship and management of ESG risks. This is exactly what trustees should be doing across the sector. ‘

Catherine Howarth , CEO Shareaction Sept 2024

‘For 6 years the #EthnicityPayGap Campaign has been calling for mandatory reporting of the Ethnicity Pay Gap and action plans to ensure fair pay. The government is heralding actions to make Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting a reality. Businesses need to recognise their responsibility, to pay their employees fairly and recognise the impact unfair pay has on them. ‘

Dianne Greyson, Director Equilibrium Mediation Consulting

"It's about time a voice of council estate poverty and food insecurity impacted the ESG space. This is for the benefit of people and the planet. Partnering with Bobby and HS Trustees is helping to achieve exactly that."

Dominic Watters, @SingleDadSW, Food is Care CIC

Solutions for Schemes of all sizes

HS Trustees is committed to assisting pension schemes take their ESG responsibilities seriously in a practical way. This includes ensuring small schemes know the value of their relationship with their fund managers and the ability this gives them to address specific issues through engagement as well as working with the largest schemes to maximise the impact of their actions to address climate change.

In September 2024, Bobby Riddaway, Managing Director, commenced his campaign for the industry to push for changes in legislation to allow schemes to spend more time on action than on reporting. This started with the article for Professional Pensions below and then was discussed at the Pension Playpen on 24 September 2024. Further work is continuing in this area including a podcast and other industry collaboration.

29th September 2024

Riddaway on fire - Keating smoulders! Pension PlayPen's burning platform.

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17th September 2024

Transition Plans - the ESG Solution for disclosure BR

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