With the deadline for 2012/13 ISAs only a day away, Blue & Green Tomorrow is on hand with some last minute information into the ethical options....
The above view seems to be the dominant one among personal finance writers, advisers and asset managers. It is surprising in an ostensibly Christian country that...
Sustainable investment specialists have rallied to defend ethical investing, after an article in The Telegraph yesterday questioned whether the strategy can be a profitable one. The...
Tim Dieppe, partner and fund manager at WHEB Asset Management, describes a recent experience that saw him in the audience for a talk from former US...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has spoken out in support of the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington, who yesterday warned of the...
Some of the world’s leading sustainability-minded financial institutions will be honoured by The Financial Times (FT) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on June 13, when...
With guides coming out from stalwarts of unsustainable investment, FT Adviser and New Model Adviser (part of Citywire), we have to ask if sustainable investment is gaining...
In the book Pale Blue Dot*, Carl Sagan, the astronomer and author, described Earth as “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam“. Earth is vulnerable...
A new set of guidelines have been launched in order to help investment firms boost the incorporation of human rights into a company’s business goals. Written...
Sustainable investment house Impax Asset Management has said that investors should be looking at how to tackle future water-related challenges, as part of World Water Day...
Greed, selfishness, recklessness, inequality and isolation seem to be the hallmarks of our modern world. Yet philanthropy, charitable giving, volunteering and social enterprise are stable or growing. Doing...
First State Investments has unveiled its 2012 Annual Report, in which responsible investment is highlighted as “critical” in securing long-term success for the business. Launched in...
Blue & Green Tomorrow openly bangs the drum for sustainable, responsible and ethical investment. Not because of some misty-eyed sentimentalism, but because smart companies and investors see...
Populist, pandering and pathetic are all adjectives that lend themselves to George Osborne’s fourth budget speech. Entrepreneurs, businesses, scientists, local communities, parents and NGOs will be rightly dismayed....
George Osborne could “mobilise billions for investment in sustainable sectors” by installing tax incentives for green ISAs, according to two leading sustainable finance organisations. The chancellor will...