To coincide with National Ethical Investment Week, Hubert Aarts of Impax Asset Management explains how investing ethically across rapidly growing global environmental markets appeals to a...
Paul Hawken is a Californian civil rights activist, environmentalist, businessman and author. Fortune named him the “original hippie entrepreneur” in 2002, and he coined the phrase...
With ethical funds recently showing greater gains over their conventional peers over the last 12 months, high net-worth investors putting an increasing portion of their wealth...
National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) 2013, which runs October 13-19, has launched a new-look website ahead of the event’s launch on Sunday. NEIW.org includes resources for consumers,...
A new study has outlined how investors and campaigners can effectively leverage their collective influence to get the most out of the fossil fuels divestment movement....
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla are part of a group of investors who have collectively pledged $8m towards the second round of...
National Ethical Investment Week 2013 is almost upon us. For seven days, between October 13-19, investors, finance professionals, charities, churches and more will congregate at events...
Energy Bonds, Greener Bonds and Good Energy Bonds. There is a flood of retail bond offerings to the market with very similar names, which is likely...
For those comfortable with the risks associated with unlisted retail bonds it is now possible to take a portfolio approach to the ‘mini’ bond market. There...
Personal finance magazine Money Observer recently described National Ethical Investment Week as a “damp squib” because of the results of a survey conducted by Ecclesiastical. The comprehensive...
Global investment association the CFA Institute has called for a greater transparency in investment products, claiming that there is currently “poor disclosure” to investors. The calls...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined how it plans to regulate consumer credit – including the payday loans industry – when it takes on the...
The order of these words matters. Invest, spend, vote. We get to vote in a general election once every five years. We tend to spend only...
It’s less than two months into the share offer on Stockwood Community Benefit Society (Stockwood CBS) and a milestone has already been reached. The organisers are...
Investors are “failing to see the connection” between their personal ethics and their investments, according to a new poll by Ecclesiastical Investment Management ahead of National...