Lothian Pension Fund

Scots pension funds put £90m in firms linked with US rights abuses

Billy Briggs on June 14, 2020June 16, 2020

Scotland’s largest council pension funds have investments worth £90 million in companies profiting directly from President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agency.

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Council fund invested £7m in Israeli bank fined for football bribe scandal

Billy Briggs on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020

A council pension fund has shares worth nearly £7m in an Israeli bank fined in the US for its involvement in a Fifa corruption scandal.

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Environment, Finance, Fracking

Scots pension funds invest more than £100m in controversial Canadian gas pipeline

Billy Briggs on March 16, 2020March 17, 2020

Critics say the project "threatens pristine environments and would provide huge new sources of climate pollution."

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How tax haven investors profit from Edinburgh’s empty sick kid’s hospital

Ally Tibbitt on September 29, 2019March 29, 2020

Profits from a controversial new children's hospital in Edinburgh are being channelled through tax havens to offshore investors, we can reveal, prompting criticism of public sector pension fund managers and the Scottish Government.

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Human rights, International

Union wants pension funds clean-up over links to Trump migrant camps

Billy Briggs on September 4, 2018April 6, 2019

One of Scotland’s largest unions is calling for a radical overhaul of council pension funds over links to Donald Trump's migrant detention camps.

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Asylum, Human rights

Scottish pension funds linked to Donald Trump’s border jails

Billy Briggs on August 2, 2018April 6, 2019

Scottish pension funds have invested millions of pounds in firms bankrolling Donald Trump’s migrant camps.

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Arms trade, Finance

Revealed: Scots pension funds invest in firms blacklisted by UN

Billy Briggs on December 7, 2017April 18, 2019

Scotland's two largest council pension funds have invested in companies reportedly on a UN blacklist for doing business in illegal Israeli settlements.

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Arms trade

Scottish council pension funds “bankrolling” arms firms

Billy Briggs on October 7, 2017April 18, 2019

Public sector workers will be "shocked and appalled" to learn of the arms industry investments, say critics.

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Environment, Fracking

Scottish councils put £400m into fracking companies

Rob Edwards on June 20, 2017April 18, 2019

Pension funds run by ten Scottish local authorities invest more than £400 million in 23 fracking companies.

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Lothian Pension Fund

Human rights, International

Scots pension funds put £90m in firms linked with US rights abuses

Human rights, Society

Council fund invested £7m in Israeli bank fined for football bribe scandal

Environment, Finance, Fracking

Scots pension funds invest more than £100m in controversial Canadian gas pipeline

Health, Finance

How tax haven investors profit from Edinburgh’s empty sick kid’s hospital

Human rights, International

Union wants pension funds clean-up over links to Trump migrant camps

Asylum, Human rights

Scottish pension funds linked to Donald Trump’s border jails

Arms trade, Finance

Revealed: Scots pension funds invest in firms blacklisted by UN

Arms trade

Scottish council pension funds “bankrolling” arms firms

Environment, Fracking

Scottish councils put £400m into fracking companies

Pension scheme chasing retirees for money forced to review governance

Scottish Natural Heritage condemned for Diageo peat extraction deal on Islay

‘This doesn’t happen here’: young women highlight sexual violence in Shetland

Trident damned as ‘deadly farce’ after costs rise £1bn