The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has urged the Law Commission to clarify fiduciary duty in order to promote long-term sustainable investment. The comments...
The Law Commission’s consultation on the fiduciary duties of investment intermediaries closes today, after three months. The organisation is looking at the pension market to assess...
Shell’s new boss Ben van Beurden has issued a shock profit warning, saying that the oil giant’s fourth quarter figures were expected to be “significantly lower...
Global investment in renewable energy fell for the second year in a row in 2013, with green investment in Europe down by 41%, new figures have...
Christiana Figueres has said that global investment in renewables and energy efficiency needs to rise from $300 billion a year to $1 trillion by 2030, in...
The highest paid employees at FTSE 100 companies earn more from 24 hours of work than their average co-worker gets in a year – around £26,500...
ShareAction has called on the Law Commission to provide a more “holistic statement” on the fiduciary duties of investment intermediaries. The charity’s comments are part of...
Carbon Tracker, which works to identify the financial risks behind high-carbon investments, is Blue & Green Tomorrow’s 2013 sustainable NGO of the year. Launched in 2011, the project’s...
An online petition asking Amazon’s boss to pay living wages to the staff working in the company’s UK warehouses has already collected more than 40,000 signatures....
George Latham, managing partner of WHEB Asset Management, writes how Comic Relief could have avoided the recent criticism of its investment strategy with a more informed...
ShareAction, a campaign group for responsible investment, has launched a protest against the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), urging the group to increase its green investment allocation....
First State Investments has unveiled a set of global stewardship principles that it says help put its clients’ interest first and boost its responsible investment credentials. The...
British shareholder groups, along with foreign investors, are to set up the Investor Forum in an effort to improve corporate governance and encourage businesses to focus...
People who put their savings into pension funds should have more say about the way in which their money is invested, as they currently have no...
David Powell, economics campaigner at Friends of the Earth, on asking investors awkward questions about the urgency of climate change, in an effort to start doing things...