Local authority pension fund investment

The request was successful.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am seeking information about the value of the pension fund administered by your authority, as well as the value of specific holdings and dividend income from those holdings.

Please provide whatever answers you can to the following.

1. What is the most recent available value of the pension fund your organisation administers?

2. What is the latest available value of the fund’s directly-held investment in shares or bonds of the following companies: BAE Systems, Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell.

3. What was the value of these holdings a year before the most recent valuation given above, or at the most recent previous valuation?

4. What dividend income and/or bond yield did the fund receive from these investments in the last 12-month period for which records are available?

4. Does the fund have any other investments in these companies via pooled investments? What is the value and dividend income from these investments?

If you require clarification on any of the above questions, please get in touch on 0203 353 3616, or 07415154041 or email me at [email address].

Yours faithfully,

Rob Davies

FOI West, Cheshire West and Chester Council

RE: Your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

 

Case Reference: RFI 0107

 

 

Dear Rob Davies

 

Thank you for your email.

 

It will be treated as a request within the meaning of the Act: this means
that we will send you a full response within 20 working days, either
supplying you with the information which you want, or explaining to you
why we cannot supply it.

 

If we need any further clarification or there is any problem we will be in
touch.

 

 

Disclosures Team

Cheshire West and Chester Council

Tel: 0300 123 8 123

Email: [1][email address]

Location: Cheshire West and Chester Council, 4 Civic Way, Ellesmere Port
CH65 0BE

Visit: cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

 

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FOI West, Cheshire West and Chester Council

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Dear Rob Davies

 

Thank you for your request for information of 17 October 2018 which has
been logged as RFI 0107 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. We confirm that Cheshire West and Chester Council
holds information relating to your request.

 

For the purpose of clarity your request has been reproduced below and the
data provided in excel format attached:

 

1. What is the most recent available value of the pension fund your
organisation administers?

2. What is the latest available value of the fund’s directly-held
investment in shares or bonds of the following companies: BAE Systems,
Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell.

3. What was the value of these holdings a year before the most recent
valuation given above, or at the most recent previous valuation?

4. What dividend income and/or bond yield did the fund receive from these
investments in the last 12-month period for which records are available?

4. Does the fund have any other investments in these companies via pooled
investments? What is the value and dividend income from these investments?

 

 

We trust this answers your query.

 

The Council considers that your request has been answered in full by
either confirming that information is not held, providing you with the
information requested, or explaining why any information has been withheld
and the reasons for any redaction. Where applicable, the Council has also
told you the reasons for the delay in responding to your request.

 

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled you can request a review by writing to the Information Disclosures
Team within 40 working days from the date of the Council’s response.

 

You are entitled to a review by the Council if:

•            You are dissatisfied with the Council’s explanation of why
the application was not dealt with within the 20 working day time limit.

•            All the information requested is not being disclosed and you
have not received an explanation why some information is not being
disclosed.

•            A reason for the disclosures under the request being refused
is not received.

•            You consider that exemptions have been wrongly applied,
and/or

•            You consider that a fee has been wrongly applied.

 

Please set out your grounds for seeking a review together with what
specific part of your request those grounds apply to and the outcome you
are seeking. The Council reserves the right to ask you for clarification
of the grounds for your review request if the grounds are not clear, and
to delay commencing the review if such grounds are not provided.

 

The Information Disclosures Team can be contacted by email via:
[Cheshire West and Chester Council request email] or at the following address:

 

Information Governance

Cheshire West and Chester Council

HQ

58 Nicholas Street

Chester

CH1 2NP

 

The Information Disclosures Team will acknowledge a request for an
internal review within 5 working days and complete the review as soon as
possible and no later than 40 working days from receipt of the request.

 

More information about the Council’s internal review process can be found
via:

 

http://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk...

 

If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of your review, you have
a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

 

The Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45

Website: www.ico.org.uk

 

There is no charge for making an appeal.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Information Governance

Cheshire West and Chester Council

 

 

FD

 

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