Back in the mists of AD2008 a conference was held at the IMAX in London by the now defunct enterprise Library House. The event had a panel...
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...
Shares in Barclays fell sharply on Tuesday, as the bank announced a plan to help cover a £12.8 billion shortfall in capital. It will issue £5.68...
Most commentators seem to agree that a return to ‘back to basics’ banking is needed if we are to avoid the kind of speculative bubbles that...
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...
A bond is like an IOU. When a company (or indeed, government) wants to raise funds, it may well look to issue bonds. Investors buy the...
An agreement has been reached over the importing of low-cost solar panels from China to the EU, two months after the European commission imposed a temporary...
A 21-year-old man has been arrested by police in Manchester after allegedly making rape and death threats to a female campaigner on Twitter. Caroline Criado-Perez, who...
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 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....
Blue & Green Tomorrow has a new look. And we’re calling on you, our readers, to let us know what you think. We want to keep writing...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon used a speech welcoming the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative to talk about sustainable investment. The full...