New analysis finds 80 Canadian pension managers with 124 different roles at 76 fossil fuel companies, raising critical beneficiary questions about fiduciary duty and pension administrators’ conflicts of interest on climate-related investment decisions. The report from Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health reveals the deep entanglement between the fossil fuel industry and directors, trustees and investment managers at Canada’s largest public pension funds.

Today’s release of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s (PSP Investments, or PSP) first Climate Strategy is a notable step forward in moving the pension fund’s investment strategy towards alignment with protecting the retirement savings of federal employees and averting catastrophic climate change.