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FairPensions seeks trustee with fund management experience

Pension funds and fund managers are major shareholders, powerful enough to affect company behaviour on human rights, environmental and labour issues. FairPensions campaigns for these major institutional investors to adopt responsible investment: using shareholder power to hold companies to account.

function startGallery() { var myGallery = new gallery($('myGallery'), { timed: true, showArrows: false, showCarousel: false, showInfopane:true, embedLinks: false }); } window.onDomReady(startGallery); Most major investors are putting money into polluting companies that are responsible for climate change[Antarctica, January 2005. Photo: Christopher Michel] _ Insitutional investors can act as a powerful influence on companies, encouraging them to adopt sustainable development [Children in Ghana, 2006. Photo: Stig Nygaard] _ Your money may be invested in companies that are causing environmental devastation [Slash and Burn in Astoria, Oregon, USA, October 2005. Photo: Joseph Robertson] _ The investments you have in your pension fund, your insurance or your savings may fund human rights abuses overseas. [Monks Protesting in Burma, September 2007. Photo: Anonymous] _ Your money may be invested in companies that are causing pollution by using outdated technology. [Niederaussem power station, Germany, June 2006. Photo: Bruno D Rodrigues] _

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