{"id":926446,"date":"2026-04-29T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926446\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:53:15","slug":"uk-local-government-pension-funds-face-ban-on-country-or-company-divestments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926446\/","title":{"rendered":"UK local government pension funds face ban on country or company divestments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"387\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/UK-Flag-1-716x387.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"UK-Flag.jpg United Kingdom\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Individual local authority pension funds would be banned from calling for divestments of individual companies, countries or \u201cinvestment styles\u201d under draft rules for investment strategy statements being set out by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p>The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is the largest funded scheme in the country and one of the largest in the world at \u00a3400 billion ($540 billion; \u20ac462 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Individual local authority pension funds would be banned from calling for divestments of individual companies, countries or \u201cinvestment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,163332,4884,1144,616,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-926446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-exclusions-divestments","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-pension-funds","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116488333501618134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}