In a letter sent to prime minister David Cameron, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, archbishop Desmond Tutu and U2 frontman Bono, said 2015...
A new report warns that the wealth gap between top bosses and everyone else has rapidly widened in the last three decades, with executives now earning...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), WPP, Hiscox, BG Group, Lloyds Banking Group, ITV, Standard Chartered, Reckitt Benckiser and Ocado. You might think there isn’t much...
Pope Francis has urged governments to take action to create a more ethical investment market that has a positive impact on people lives, rather than benefitting...
Ninety-six per cent of Britons believe the tax system should be more progressive than it currently is, according to a new survey that reveals the public...
More than 20m meals were given to those in desperate need last year in the UK, a report by the Trussell Trust, Church Action on Poverty...
Globally private financial wealth grew by 14.6% in 2013 reaching $152 trillion (£90tn), according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). However, it adds...
Four in five investors have looked at sustainability issues in one or more investment contexts in the last year, according to research from PwC. However, investors...
With the 2014 World Cup kicking off next week, all eyes are on the delicate socio-political situation in Brazil, where the enormous expenditure set aside for...
A group of native Amazonian people have invited the England football squad to a game during the World Cup in Brazil, to show the footballers their...
Financial markets must reform in order to make capitalism more inclusive and address the challenges of inequality and trust, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of...
Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde has said that banks have not changed since the financial crisis and warned that a lack of...
The wealthiest in Britain have recovered from the financial crisis, the Sunday Times’s latest rich list has revealed. The accumulative wealth of the 1,000 richest Brits...
New data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that Britain’s wealthiest 1% now holds as much wealth as the poorest 54%. The findings have...
Climate change, along with an ageing global population, is a “megatrend” that will impact on sovereign creditworthiness, according to a report from ratings agency Standard &...