2013 has been a difficult year for many commodities, with significant declines in the price of gold, aluminium and iron ore, for example. However, we have...
As the emerging markets develop and adopt an increasingly westernised lifestyle they will unfortunately have to cope with treating an increasingly westernised set of diseases. This...
Barack Obama has ordered new curbs on carbon emissions from power plants and has vowed to act on climate change. To back up his stance, the...
The collapse of the Rana Plaza on the 24th April in Bangladesh has once again focused attention on poor working conditions in the factories that supply...
Environmental problems in China are increasingly getting to a point where the sacrifice for its rapid economic growth becomes unbearable. The problems range across the full...
The arrival of mobile payments, which is essentially the ability to use your phone as a wallet, is having a big impact on many sectors, and...
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...
Two polls, by Spectrem’s Millionaire Corner in the US, claim that high net-worth and millionaire investors are more concerned about returns than about social responsibility. Details...
Yesterday, Blue & Green Tomorrow gave you some last minute information on ISAs, and today is the last day you can apply if you want to...
Tim Reynolds is an ethical investor. His prime motivation for investing in this way is his keen interest in the environment and his desire to encourage...
Royal London strikes a deal worth £220m for Co-op’s life insurance and asset management arms, including the takeover of 5 sustainable screened funds, enhancing its offerings...
Ecclesiastical’s recent Amnity Insight report “Human Rights: Human Wrongs” examines human rights as an emerging corporate risk and what businesses should do to address this. In...
The majority of Australians want their investments and savings to reflect their personal values, according to a survey by fund manager Australian Ethical. Some 62.5% of...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) could almost match the expected amount it will be fined for its part in the Libor scandal in funding for...
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...