Asset owners crucial in promoting ESG practices
A survey has revealed that pension funds and asset owners can positively influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy decisions by asset managers. At the launch of its annual responsible investment report in London last month, First State Investments posed questions to over 100 industry figures, including asset managers,...
The Guide to Ethical Funds 2013
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Ethical Funds 2013. With help from YourEthicalMoney.org (an EIRIS Foundation initiative), we’ve given you details on a wide selection of regulated investment funds that have a green, ethical, sustainable or responsible stance in the UK. Whether your strategy is to exclude stocks...
Saving the world or getting healthy returns is a false choice in finance
So, which is it for you: whales or your wallet? Do you want to save the world, or do you want financial success? Anna Laycock from Ecology Building Society is on hand to prove that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. For so long, we’ve been told that saving the...
April’s top 10 green crowdfunding projects
Crowdfunding is becoming an ever-more popular way for entrepreneurs and small-scale projects to raise vital funds needed to kickstart their business. We owe a lot to crowdfunding ourselves, so have rounded up the 10 best projects currently on the lookout for democratic finance. Ideas are usually pitched online through crowdfunding...
Online course launched to promote sustainable investment advice
A new online course, Fundamentals of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, has been launched to help US financial advisers incorporate sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) into clients’ portfolios. Designed by experts in the field of SRI, the new programme by the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF),...
Introducing: The Guide to Ethical Financial Advice 2013
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Ethical Financial Advice 2013. Here, you’ll find all the information you need on where to find a specialist ethical financial adviser near you. Profiling members of the Ethical Investment Association (EIA), as well as looking into the history of financial advice...
The Guide to Ethical Financial Advice 2013
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Ethical Financial Advice 2013. Here, you’ll find all the information you need on where to find a specialist ethical financial adviser near you. Profiling members of the Ethical Investment Association (EIA), as well as looking into the history of financial advice more generally, after...
Survey shows UK firms are getting complacent with supplier risks
Forty-eight per cent of British firms are failing to check their suppliers for compliance with the UK Bribery Act, according to new research by Ernst & Young. The study, by Ernst & Young’s fraud investigation and dispute services team, reveals that almost half (48%) of polled procurement managers and directors...
Lies, damned lies and sustainability reports
Ty Lee, senior analyst at WHEB Asset Management, delves into the troublesome world of corporate sustainability reporting, and explains why we must crack the chicken-and-egg problem between companies and investors. How much is 122 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide? If you think it sounds like a lot, you’d be...
Renewables given boost through Good Energy’s encouraging annual figures
Good Energy, the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, has released its preliminary results for 2012 – a year in which the firm experienced encouraging growth in revenue, gross profit and customers. Its revenue grew by 31% to £28.2m, while its gross profit increased by 10% to £9.6m. It...
Responsible investment terms: what is best-in-class investment?
Best-in-class investment means investing in companies that are frontrunners in meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in their particular universe, asset class or category. To understand a little more about the drivers behind best-in-class investment, we need to look at ESG more broadly. Examples of the ESG criteria...
Bill McKibben: ‘coal needs to stay in the ground if we want to tackle climate change’
Prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben has described Australian coalmining as a “rogue industry”, despite many new developments gaining recent approval in the country. The country’s government previously pledging to reduce Australia’s greenhouse output by 80% by the middle of the century, but a number of coal projects in Queensland have...
UK ‘could miss opportunities’ if it fails to invest sustainably in natural capital
The Natural Capital Committee (NCC) has released its first report, designed to ensure that the government has a better informed understanding of the economic value of natural capital. It will help prioritise action to support and improve the UK’s natural assets. The NCC report, The State of Natural Capital,...
175 turbines now turning at world’s largest offshore wind farm
Trade association RenewableUK has revealed that all 175 turbines at London Array, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, are now generating clean power. The 630 megawatt (MW) development, located in the Thames estuary, is a collaboration between E.ON, Dong Energy and Masdar. The project’s switch-on follows the completion of...
Annual figures from Ecology bolster case for ethical banking
Sustainable finance institution Ecology Building Society has revealed that it increased its net profits by 8% in 2012 – a figure that comes just two weeks after a study showed profits from the big five banks were nullified by past fines and mistakes. Ecology’s £459,000 surplus last year is...
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