A bond is like an IOU. When a company (or indeed, government) wants to raise funds, it may well look to issue bonds. Investors buy the...
An agreement has been reached over the importing of low-cost solar panels from China to the EU, two months after the European commission imposed a temporary...
A 21-year-old man has been arrested by police in Manchester after allegedly making rape and death threats to a female campaigner on Twitter. Caroline Criado-Perez, who...
A lack of transparency around the profits that energy companies make is undermining consumer trust, a committee of MPs has claimed. In a new report, the...
Alex Blackburne outlines 10 signs that suggest sustainable investment – incorporating social, environmental and financial returns – is on its way to becoming a mainstream strategy...
Extreme weather fuelled by climate change represents the biggest threat to British agriculture, according to the president of the National Farmers’ Union. In an interview with...
Current government policies on oil and gas extraction in the Arctic are failing to protect the fragile region and take into account numerous safety fears, according...
One of the defences in the Church of England’s clerical kerfuffle over its indirect seed funding of payday lender Wonga (APR 5,853%), was that investment managers...
Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) has welcomed a report by MPs that said the government was not doing enough for rural communities. The report...
What is the future of philanthropy? Katherine Fulton, president of Monitor Institute, attempts to answer that very question in this week’s featured TED talk. Giving five...