For many years now, the Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF) has invested as responsibly as possible, and we're always reviewing the best way to do this and looking for new opportunities. We undertake statutory and best practice reporting of our activities. One of these is reporting our responsible investment performance through the UK Government. The report is long (but well worth a read) and we’ve highlighted some of the key points through a short film, plus there’s also a 2 page summary.
Read our 2 page summary.
Watch our short film on EAPF’s approach to responsible investment.
Our primary legal duty is to ensure that your money is invested correctly, and EAPF has continued to demonstrate excellent financial performance (particularly in what have been testing times). The EAPF has been fully funded for 7 years, which is an indication of correct investment decisions. Over the past 5 years, the investment returns have been in a range of 6.6% to 7.6%, which compared to the market has been very good.
We continue to work with the Brunel pool that we are part of with 9 other funds, on the best way to invest responsibly and we also look for opportunities directly ourselves. Some are described in the report above and we will have new ones to share with you when we report again next year.