The government should introduce a tax relief for social impact investments in order to widen the sector’s attraction to the retail market, specialist ethical financial advisers...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has moved to freeze the assets of a suspected boiler room scam, after a High Court judge last week agreed that...
UK consumers and investors continue to use and value the independent financial advice (IFA) sector for financial help and guidance, a survey has found. IFAs were...
Investors have been rushing to buy shares in Royal Mail following claims the company has been undervalued, which could mean investors enjoy instant profits. The deadline...
With just over 10 weeks until National Ethical Investment Week 2013 (October 13-19), we’ll be catching up with a different financial adviser that specialises in ethical investment...
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....
Julian Parrott, partner at Edinburgh-based Ethical Futures, reflects on a recent survey that said short-term financial planning was apparent among eight out of 10 individuals who...
There are plenty of independent financial advisers (IFAs) across the country who give advice on ethical and environmental investments. Our job is to tell you about...
Two of the world’s most prominent share indices – the Dow Jones and FTSE 100 – climbed to highs unseen for a number of years on...
The Ethical Investment Association (EIA) is a membership association for financial advisers in the UK who are committed to promoting green and ethical investment to their...
High street banks including Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Nationwide have revealed what they will charge for financial advice, following the introduction...
A piece in The Guardian last week posed the question, “Where can investors who worry about climate change put their pension?” and claimed that many ethical funds...
An article by City AM yesterday said how ethical funds had witnessed the “highest drop in retail sales on record”. But according to a leading responsible investment research...
The Investors Chronicle recently claimed that under a new financial advice regime called the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), advisers across the UK will be “preparing to dump their...
A recent report outlined that the financial performance of ethical and mainstream investment funds barely differed. Here, Julian Parrott, partner at independent financial advisers Ethical Futures, describes...