Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Sustainable Investment – written and published especially to coincide with National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) 2012. Now into...
An increasing number of investors are turning to ethical options after witnessing scandals and crises in the mainstream banking arena, according to a National Ethical Investment...
Penny Shepherd, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), spoke with Alex Blackburne about National Ethical Investment Week, the Green Investment Bank...
The United Kingdom has the seventh largest economy in the world measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), down from fifth in 1979. Despite our slow overall...
Every autumn, the financial press spends seven short days focusing on ethical investment. The rest of the year, it returns to writing about the business of...
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) – a £3 billion scheme to accelerate investment in green infrastructure – has been granted state aid approval by the European...
The principles of ethical investment chime notoriously well with the values held by charities, faith groups and the public sector. Alex Blackburne spoke with Helen Wildsmith...
There are a number of interesting events taking place during this year’s National Ethical Investment Week – one of which was hosted by Ethex, a non-profit that...
Some commentators like to paint ethical or responsible investors as a slightly deluded, financially naïve bunch of simple folk, more fond of ‘doing good’ and hugging...
Charity Bank, one of the primary lenders to the UK charitable and social sectors, turns 10 years old today – somewhat fittingly, right in the middle...
Two of the fastest growing ethical investment markets are agriculture and forestry. And, as its National Ethical Investment Week, Alex Blackburne caught up with Michael Young,...
Investors in Great Britain think that charities should take it upon themselves to become frontrunners in responsible investment, according to figures released as part of National...
Considering investing ethically but still not totally convinced? Worry not! Here’s five sure-fire reasons to do so, described by Greenhouse PR. Have you ever thought about what happens...
The majority of ethical investors place environmental issues at the forefront of their mind when selecting their portfolios, according to a survey conducted by Worldwise Investor....
Lee Smythe, managing director of Smythe & Walter Chartered Financial Planners, delves into the tax breaks that could make sound ethical investments even more attractive. There...