With just over 10 weeks until National Ethical Investment Week 2013 (October 13-19), we’ll be catching up with a different financial adviser that specialises in ethical investment...
Essex councillors have criticised the council’s decision to invest £5m of its £3.6 billion pension fund in large tobacco companies. A number of members have called...
Divesting from fossil fuels is a compelling win-win for investors and claims of underperformance are wrong, writes Ominder Dhillon of Impax Asset Management. Pressure is building on...
Harvard Management Company (HMC), the finance arm of the prestigious US university, has hired its first vice-president for sustainable investing. In a newly created role, Jameela...
Very few people in the UK sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) industry can claim they’ve ‘been there, done that, got the T-shirt’. Julia Dreblow, founder of...
The Telegraph’s Questor column leapt onto the Wonga bandwagon on Friday, boldly and unsubstantiatedly declaring, “There is no such thing as an ethical investment.” There is certainly such...
Alex Blackburne outlines 10 signs that suggest sustainable investment – incorporating social, environmental and financial returns – is on its way to becoming a mainstream strategy...
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...
The Church of England declares war on payday lenders and then it’s uncovered it’s one of their investors. It’s a perfect story. And it draws back...
The day after the archbishop of Canterbury said he would try and compete payday lenders like Wonga “out of existence”, it was revealed that the Church...
Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that it is replacing its head of its operations in China Mark Reilly, amid allegations of corruption in the country....
An Australian activist who allegedly created a fake press release that caused a $300m drop in a major coal company’s share price has been released on...
The Church of England invests part of its £5.5 billion portfolio indirectly in Wonga, the same payday lender that this week the archbishop of Canterbury said...
One in five people who have previously not received financial advice plan to do so in the future to prepare for retirement, according to new research....
Private investor Catherine Ayres explains her motivations for investing £10,000 in Stockwood Community Benefit Society (CBS), a trust created to put Rush Farm and Stockwood Business Park...