Monsanto
Pension Plan

Regulatory and useful information about the Scheme

Amendments to Pension Scheme Regulations in 2018 mean that the Trustee of the Monsanto Pension Plan is legally obliged to release certain information about the Plan on a publicly available website. 

From 1 October 2020, the Trustee must update and publish its Statement of Investment Principles (SIP) taking into account financially material considerations, including how those considerations are taken into account in the selection, retention and realisation of investments. ‘Financially material considerations’ are formally defined as including, but not limited to, matters such as environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, including but not limited to climate change. The revised SIP must also state the extent, if at all, non-financial matters are taken into account in the selection, retention and realisation of investments and also reflect more specifically on their stewardship activities. 

Furthermore, from 1 October 2021, the Trustee will be required to produce, and publish online, an implementation statement setting out how they acted on the principles set out in the SIP and describing any review of it during the year, explaining any changes that have been made. The implementation statement will be published on this site annually, from 2021 onwards.