Alliance Trust Investments has become one of the world’s largest sustainable investment houses, after completing the transfer of the Aviva Investors SRI fund range. Aviva’s team...
An article published in the British Medical Journal last week said that 40% of girls born this year will live to the age of 100 – with...
A report by responsible investment campaigners FairPensions has highlighted that despite a government consultation on excessive executive pay, 72% of institutional investors opposed plans for a...
Penny Shepherd, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), spoke with Alex Blackburne about National Ethical Investment Week, the Green Investment Bank...
FairPensions is to host a training event in London in November, in order to encourage employees and shareholders to campaign for responsible investment within their pension...
Around 10,000 investment banking jobs were cut worldwide in the last 12 months, equating to a decrease of 5.6% according to analysis undertaken by Financial News....
Aviva Investors and Alliance Trust Investments today announced that they have entered into an investment-advisory agreement for Aviva Investors’ £1.2bn Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds,...
Business secretary Vince Cable has enforced plans for a binding vote on executive pay, meaning public limited companies will be legally required to act upon shareholder...
Chief executives of firms in the FTSE 100 saw their annual wage increase by 12% last year, despite a 5% fall in total revenue across the...
Barclays and Aviva are two high-profile companies that have recently made the headlines because of shareholder revolts over excessive executive pay. Especially at a time of recession,...
Less than a week after Barclays received a battering from shareholders over its executive pay, insurance giant Aviva has come under the cosh for the very...
A number of Britain’s biggest banks and insurance companies are abandoning investments in the cluster bomb manufacturing industry—a welcome but overdue decision. The quartet—Lloyds Banking Group,...