Lothian Pension Fund, the second largest local authority pension fund in Scotland with 84,000 members and £8bn of assets, has divested from Israeli Bank Hapoalim.
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Category: Scotland
Strathclyde Pension Fund drops complicit companies from asset list
Media Release: Campaigners welcome Strathclyde Pension Fund removal of complicit companies from asset list 9 March 2021 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has welcomed news
Read morePension funds can divest from Palestinian occupation firms, court rules
Billy Briggs, The Ferret, May 1, 2020 Human rights campaigners in Scotland have welcomed a ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court that council pension funds
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Strathclyde Pension Fund continues to invest in complicit companies – campaigners highlight “deeply flawed” engagement process
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign sent the following letter to members of the Strathclyde Pension Fund Committee in December, but have not received a response three
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Tayside Pension Fund drops Bank Hapoalim
7 February 2019 Nya Bashir, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Dundee SPSC welcomes the confirmation from Dundee City Council that Tayside Pension Fund no longer invests
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Strathclyde Pension Fund investments in HP Enterprise and DXC Technology
3 December 2018Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign letter to Strathclyde Pension Fund Committee members Dear Councillor I am writing on behalf of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
Read moreScots pension fund sells shares in controversial Israeli bank
Billy Briggs, The Ferret, August 22, 2018 A council pension fund has sold its shares in an Israeli bank at the centre of a global
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Falkirk Pension Fund divests from Bank Hapoalim
Falkirk Pension Fund, which manages £2.3 billion in the pension funds for Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils, sold off its £6m holding in Bank Hapoalim
Read moreIona Community back justice for Palestine and criticise Christian Zionism
by Michael Gray, CommonSpace, 4th January 2017 THE CHRISTIAN GROUPING the Iona Community has declared its support for the ‘Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions’ (BDS) movement of
Read moreKilling in the name of: Scottish council arms investments revealed
by David Jamieson, CommonSpace, 3rd June 2016 COMMON WEAL SOUTH LANARKSHIRE has released information from a series of wide-ranging Freedom of Information (FoI) requests which unveil the extent of
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