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LGIM rejects private jet travel at Hyatt, Hilton and Marriott as a ‘perk’

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Asset manager’s have heaped pressure on corporations over private jet use
Asset manager’s have heaped pressure on corporations over private jet use Photo: Getty Images

Legal & General Investment Management, the UK’s largest fund management group, has adopted a hardline approach towards companies that provide their chief executives with private jets, voting against a string of pay packages where their use is included as a perk.

LGIM, which oversees £1.2tn in assets, has “for a number of years” been piling pressure on the companies in which it is a major shareholder to remove corporate jets as a benefit.

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