Fairshare Educational Foundation
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FairPensions is an award-winning campaigning organisation founded to promote Responsible Investment in the pensions and investment industry. Our mission recognises the simple but under-appreciated fact that the trillions of pounds invested in pensions have the power to change our world. The money people save every month for their retirement is the money that pension funds invest in corporations across the world. Those funds enable companies to go about their business – for better or worse. Following discussions with other civil society organisations, including WWF, Amnesty International, and Friends of the Earth, FairPensions was founded in 2005 with Alex van der Velden as the organisation's founder and first chief Executive. In 2006 FairPensions was granted charitable status. We believe that Responsible Investment (RI) is about recognising that the impacts of corporations on the environment, on workers and on communities can seriously affect the value of our investments in them. RI offers us an opportunity to improve corporations' environmental and social impacts while protecting the financial performance of our pensions.
