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Pension funds pile pressure on Barclays over fossil fuel financing

Four pension funds will pile pressure on Barclays to phase out its financing of fossil fuel companies.

Four pension funds will pile pressure on Barclays to phase out its financing of fossil fuel companies.

The institutional investors – Brunel Pension Partnership, Local Government Pension Scheme Central, Merseyside Pension Fund and Falkirk Council Pension Fund – will make the formal request in a shareholders' resolution, which will be voted on at Barclays' annual meeting in May.

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