The church pension fund and the mining disaster

The church pension fund and the mining disaster
UK Financial Reporting Council head Claudia Chapman (Image: Toitū Tahua: Centre for Sustainable Finance)
Greg Hurrell
A church pension fund that was instrumental in improving the safety of tailings dams used in mining is a poster child for investor stewardship, a visiting expert says.Claudia Chapman is head of stewardship at the UK’s Financial Reporting Council, who has been in New Zealand speaking to signatories of NZ’s stewardship code and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).Chapman led the latest revision of the the council's stewardship code released in 2020, which makes her well qualified to provide an explanation of investor stewardship...

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