Financial actors have accelerated in using arguments asserting their role as benefiting society, particularly in climate change. In pension funds, professionals with expertise in sustainable and responsible investment are growing in numbers. This presentation explores the practices that are emerging as these professionals aim to ensure that workers' pension savings are invested responsibly. The study mobilises ethnographic data from the Danish pension sector through the lens of political ontology. We show that Responsible Investment professionals work within the premise of ensuring return on investment as their main responsibility. Furthermore, we discuss how their increasing work in collecting sustainability data limits how responsibility and sustainability can be enacted in practice
