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 sustainable investment industry has called on George Osborne’s autumn statement to show an awareness of long-term megatrends such as climate change and resource scarcity while...
Comic Relief has said it has “nothing to hide”, after the BBC confirmed it would be screening a controversial Panorama investigation into charity investment policies. The...
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...
Alliance Trust Investments, Impax Asset Management and Triodos Bank were among the winners at the Environment, Ethical, Social & Governance (ESG) Investment Awards on Tuesday. Now...
Threadneedle Investments and Big Issue Invest have pulled the curtain on the Threadneedle UK Social Bond fund – an investment vehicle available from January 2014 that...
Aberdeen Asset Management has signed a deal with Lloyds Banking Group to buy Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) that will see its ethical and responsible assets...
Global carbon emissions are set to reach record high levels in 2013, according to new analysis by climate scientists. The sustainable investment industry has said the...
Marketing guru Seth Godin sent out two posts last week about bullying (first; second). “He’s a bully, but he’s our bully” was the gist of the first...
A decade after taking the reins of what is now the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, James Gifford announced in August his intention to step...
Italy’s second Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) Week finished on Tuesday in Rome. The last event had its key moment at the end of the day,...
The devastation in the Philippines reminds us of our responsibility to stop profiting from the wreckage caused by companies whose business plan includes destroying the planet,...
Higher education institutions that don’t divest from fossil fuel companies because it’s the right thing to do should divest from “stranded assets” because it makes financial...
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund of Norway (GPF), has come under additional pressure to drop its investments in the coal industry....
The survival rate of a newly born enterprise in its first three years is around two-thirds. This drops to well under half at the five-year mark....