Sustainable Investment: Best Practice Disclosure Checklist for Pension Funds
By World Bank Group
There are compelling reasons for asset owners – in particular large pension funds and sovereign wealth funds – to adopt sustainable investment, and for governments to support them in these endeavours. First, asset owners have a key role to play in providing the capital that supports national economic and development goals. Second, sustainability issues – for example, climate change, labour rights, public health – are important drivers of investment value. Third, asset owners play a key role in building the conditions for the widespread adoption of sustainable investment.
Better disclosure (or transparency) by asset owners is an important mechanism for driving sustainability in investment markets and in the wider economy1 . Yet, while the general case for asset owner disclosure is clear, it is not clear what disclosures asset owners should provide or what information would be most useful to their stakeholders (which include governments, asset managers, companies and civil society). This checklist has been developed to provide a comprehensive list of the disclosures that asset owners’ stakeholders are likely to be interested in.
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