A mutual fund is an open-ended investment fund that combines money from shareholders and invests it in diverse securities, including stocks and bonds. The funds are...
Threadneedle Investments and Big Issue Invest have pulled the curtain on the Threadneedle UK Social Bond fund – an investment vehicle available from January 2014 that...
On Thursday last week, I had probably my most positive and interesting meeting with a fund manager, when I met Charlie Thomas of Jupiter Ecology fund,...
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund of Norway (GPF), could begin investing in renewable energy. The country’s newly-formed minority conservative government, which...
A new scheme has been launched to help solve the country’s housing shortage by providing cheap loans to the owners of England’s 710,000 empty properties in...
The $750 billion Government Pension Fund of Norway (GPF) has responded to a review of its investment strategy, which described its ethical footprint as “severely limited”...
Amidst the plethora of ETFs, index trackers, value, growth and absolute return financial products offered to individual and institutional investors it is easy to forget that...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC),a subsidiary of the World Bank, has begun the first round of financing for start-up businesses in the clean technology industry. The...
Sustainable Future Equity Fund performance over the past 10 years: no evidence of sacrificing investment returns or increased risk, but still two opposing camps? With regard...
Each year the fund management industry gets together to salute their heroes at the Royal Albert Hall. It is always a very well attended event and...
At the end of 2012, we surveyed Ethical Investment Association (EIA) members for the third year in a row, and this week have been reporting on the asset...
Simon Webber, Fund Manager of the Schroder Global Climate Change Fund tells us that efforts to tackle climate change will be the next industrial revolution and...
The Malborough Ethical Fund was launched on 21st October 2005 and after 8 years Malborough have announced that they will close the fund on the 31st...
We caught up with Clare Brook (pictured right of photo), founding partner of WHEB Asset Management to find out about new developments in the fund and...
Sue Round is an ethical investment stalwart. Having joined Ecclesiastical Insurance Group in 1984, she’s managed the Amity UK Fund for almost a quarter of a...