Brunel Pension Partnership Limited (Brunel) is one of eight national pooled funds and manages the investment of the pension assets for the funds of Avon, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Environment Agency, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Brunel manages circa £30 billion investments on behalf of these 10 Local Government Pension Scheme funds.
Brunel Pension Partnership has been named the Pension fund of the year by Environmental Finance. It also picked up another award for ESG Initiative of the Year.
Environmental Finance (EF) is an online news and analysis service set up over 20 years ago to report on sustainable investment, green finance and the people and companies active in environmental markets. Its Sustainable Investment Awards seek to recognise those asset managers, analysts and data providers that incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors in their investments.
In awarding Brunel Pension Partnership with the prestigious Pension fund of the year EF praised Brunel for its clear and broad climate policy, active engagement, and ongoing push for disclosure improvements.
The second award ESG Initiative of the Year recognises the work Brunel carried out in conjunction with consultancy Chronos Sustainability. Where they developed a climate change framework designed to achieve investment returns whilst being in alignment with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.