LGPS funds invested directly or indirectly

Find out more about LGPS funds invested directly or indirectly

10 December 2021

Request

Please provide an answer to the following questions regarding the LGPS fund you administer.

(i) Is the fund invested directly or indirectly, through owning shares or through pools, trackers, investment in funds or through being part of a CIV, in one of the 112 business entities included in the United Nations Human Rights Council report into business activity in Israel's settlements, (A/HRC/43/71)?

(ii) If yes, please provide the market value of the investment, and how the investment is made.

(iii) Is the fund invested directly or indirectly, through owning shares or through pools, trackers, investment in funds or through being part of a CIV, in Elbit Systems?

Further, please provide in digital format the following documents:

(i) A list of companies in which the fund directly holds shares, and the market value of each.

(ii) A list of the various funds, trackers, pools and CIVs in which the pension fund invests - both the name of each fund, and the manager who deals with it on the funds's behalf?

(iii) A list of companies invested in by the funds, trackers. pools and CIVs you hold funds in, providing the market value of each indirect investment. Understanding that shares held indirectly fluctuate frequently, simply the latest information you already have on this will be fine.

(iv) total value of the funds investment portfolio.

Response

Please see the attached.