Anna Laycock, ethics manager at Ecology Building Society, reflects on recent media criticism of financial mutuals. Reading the headlines this weekend, you’d have been forgiven for...
A survey from the Financial Times supplement FTfm has found that more than half of women working in asset management have been on the receiving end...
Expanding the diversity of UK business forms will improve the way businesses operate and result in sustainable growth, according to a study by the business thinktank...
The Metropolitan police is sending 650 officers to busy London junctions on Monday, in a bid to improve cyclist safety after the deaths of six people...
The government is to introduce new legislation that will see the cost of taking out a payday loan capped, after a cross-party group of MPs backed...
Threadneedle Investments and Big Issue Invest have pulled the curtain on the Threadneedle UK Social Bond fund – an investment vehicle available from January 2014 that...
Iran has agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for partial relief on international sanctions. David Cameron said this was an important first step while...
The failure of UN negotiations in Warsaw to secure global carbon emission reductions, along with David Cameron’s recent comments – in which he allegedly told aides...
Towards 9 Billion is a vision for a sustainable and equitable future based upon some simple yet radical changes to the purpose and processes of modern...
A new major report, published on Monday, has revealed the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) “shocking treatment” of UK businesses, claiming that on occasions, the bank...
Given the scale of the problems the world faces, can we be optimistic about a future with sustainability at its core? In their first entry of...
Swiss sustainability rating agency Inrate has released a new index that ranks Stoxx Europe 50 companies on their environmental and social performances. Companies from the clothing,...
New research has suggested that ambitious emissions reduction targets are needed now in order to make an impact and slow the pace of climate change. The...
A report by ActionAid has suggested Barclays is increasing the number of tax havens it is promoting, despite the bank saying it was changing after...
Fifty years ago today in Dallas, Texas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States, was assassinated. His murder shook the world. Whatever his qualities as...