Scottish Widows excludes all fossil fuels from flagship £250m green pension fund

Cecilia Keating
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Pension provider has introduced tougher criteria as it reboots ‘green’ pension fund it first launched in 1989

Scottish Widows has claimed that its £250m Environmental Fund now boasts the widest fossil fuel exclusions of any pension provider in the UK, as it unveiled a reboot of the 31-year-old scheme this morning....

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