Case Study 5: Applying active ownership and stewardship to a pension fund portfolio

Caroline Escott

This chapter builds on the theory of active ownership by demonstrating how the in-house manager for one of the UK’s largest pension schemes considers and undertakes engagement, voting and public policy activity on behalf of scheme members. It explores the Railpen approach to, and governance of, active ownership, as well as how it has evolved and what it looks like in practice.

ABOUT RAILPEN

The Railways Pension Trustee Company Ltd (the Trustee) is responsible for managing four railways pension schemes. The Railways Pension Scheme (RPS) is the largest of the four, created in 1994 after the privatisation of the UK railways industry and reorganisation of the British Rail Pension Scheme.

Railpen is the trading name of Railway Pension Investments Ltd, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and acts as the in-house investment manager for the railways pension schemes. Railpen is responsible for the management of around £37 billion of assets on behalf of 350,000 members. The Trustee is Railpen’s only client, which ensures that all Railpen’s activities align with the interests of the schemes’ members.

“Sustainable ownership” is the term given to

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