Following the Government’s decision last week to reject the Law Commission’s recommendation that pension trustees should take account ESG issues, we spoke to Fergus Moffatt, Programme Director...
Peter Michaelis answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Head of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) at Alliance Trust, he has managed money in the...
US companies are becoming more receptive to the environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns of shareholders, according to a new survey of socially responsible investing (SRI)...
Banks and other financial institutions are being pressured to report sustainability data in order to create long-term value, as negotiations attempt to drive responsible finance up...
In 2001, a new investment index caused controversy when it omitted some of the UK’s leading companies on ethical grounds. Tesco, Safeway and the Royal Bank...
Raj Singh answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. A freelance writer on sustainable investment and CSR, blogging at www.esginsider.com, Singh was previously programme director at the UK...
George Latham, managing partner of WHEB Asset Management, writes how Comic Relief could have avoided the recent criticism of its investment strategy with a more informed...
James Gifford, the founding executive director of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), is stepping down from his role in November, it has been announced. The...
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has used a speech at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street to encourage the investment industry to opt...
François Passant, executive director of the European Sustainable Investment Forum – or Eurosif – speaks to Blue & Green Tomorrow about how sustainable investment is thriving across the...
Leading financial services firm UBS has released a report that outlines its commitment to sustainable investment – which it says “has entered the mainstream”. The report uses...
It is almost five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but only now are we seeing the first stirrings of something that was almost universally...
Barclays and global indexing firm MSCI have co-launched a series of fixed income indices that they say will help “stimulate” the growth of sustainable investment. The...
Ranking multinational companies on their water usage and efficiency would go a long way to driving change and reducing their water footprints, according to an environmental,...
The majority of fossil fuels are “unburnable” if governments want to stay within their carbon emission limits, according to a comprehensive report by leading economists. Unburnable...