UK’s biggest pension scheme set to screen investments based on workforce diversity

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The UK’s largest workplace pension scheme Nest has joined forces with the Church of England Pension Board to sign up to a new charter committing them to screen their investments taking account of gender and ethnicity diversity.

It marks a significant step towards tackling the asset management industry’s serial image problem, namely, that they’re all male, pale and stale.

A study run by investment data firm reveal more funds in the UK are run by men called Dave than by women.

Now the charter, backed by a number of investment consultants and pension schemes including West Midlands Pension Fund, Lothian Pension Fund and RPMI Railpen, should force asset managers to take a more proactive approach to improving their workforce diversity.

When bidding to manage a scheme’s assets, fund managers will be required to disclose gender and ethnicity information relating to their own teams.

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