Labour leader Ed Miliband has threatened to break up big banks and cap pension charges at his party’s annual conference, but it’s his stance on imposing...
Like many specialist ethical financial advisers, Scott Murray’s roots began in mainstream investment. He then realised he needed a change. Now managing director of Virtuo Wealth...
A recent report outlined that the financial performance of ethical and mainstream investment funds barely differed. Here, Julian Parrott, partner at independent financial advisers Ethical Futures, describes...
£25,000. It seems quite a lot of money. And it is a lot of money, by most people’s standards. Why are we looking for this amount...
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...
A comparison of indexes has shown that sustainable companies financially outshine those that don’t deem resource efficiency as integral to their business strategies. Writing in the...
In our month-long run up to National Ethical Investment Week 2012 (October 14-20), Simon Leadbetter asks, what’s in a name? Ever since the idea behind Blue...
To help fund Blue & Green Tomorrow’s next stage of growth, we’ve turned to crowdfunding, an innovative way of sourcing funding. So without further ado, here’s our...
John Ditchfield, a managing partner at independent financial advisers (IFA) Barchester Green, has been elected to the board of directors of the UK Sustainable Investment and...
Sustainable investment has been highlighted as the “only solution” to the ever-growing demand for food, in a report by global investment boutique, Sustainable Asset Management (SAM)....
“The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology” – E. F. Schumacher, 1973. On...
It’s Friday, and so the weekend is almost upon us. But we’ve just got time to round-up all the features and in-depth items that have appeared...
Aiming for high returns as an ethical investor is irrelevant and distracting, writes Edinburgh-based financial adviser, Julian Parrott. There’s rarely a day goes by when I don’t...
A freedom of information (FOI) request lodged by The Huffington Post has revealed that some of the UK’s top universities received at least £83m in funding...
You may have seen our recent series about the UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). If you didn’t, you now have a chance to browse through...