Corporate schemes must increase transparency and demand more responsible investing from their asset managers to keep pace with pension funds outside the UK, UKSIF says.
The sustainable investment forum said private sector funds needed to make their statement of investment principles more freely available to the public and build environmental, social and governance issues into the awarding of mandates.
Compared with funds overseas, the UK needed to be more forward thinking, the organisation said.
UKSIF chief executive Penny Shepherd said: "Pension funds should be more transparent, demanding long term responsible investments from their asset managers
Corporate schemes must increase transparency and demand more responsible investing from their asset managers to keep pace with pension funds outside the UK, UKSIF says. 
