Jonathan Chilvers is an ethical investor. Through a child trust fund set up for his four-year-old daughter, his motivation is to ensure he’s doing his bit...
George Latham, managing partner at WHEB Asset Management, looks back at a number of recent events in the ethical and sustainable investment sectors to determine the...
As we reported on Saturday, the responsible investment campaign group FairPensions has released a challenging report on the state of ethical funds. The critical but welcome...
Up until this year, I banked with HSBC. I’d done so since receiving a shiny red money box from them at the age of seven. It...
Will and Sally Sutcliffe are ethical investors. Their investment journey began in the late ‘90s when they inherited a “sizeable sum” of money that they realised...
A report by responsible investment campaigners FairPensions has ranked 20 of the largest ethical investment houses into a responsibility ranking. Ethical fund providers were scored on...
In the wake of the financial crisis, new research suggests that both the demand for and understanding of ethical investment has grown in the past 12...
The Green Investment Bank’s (GIB) ability to borrow is set to be put back, after George Osborne confirmed that austerity measures will continue for at least...
A recent discussion forum organised by the EIRIS Foundation in association with Oxfam brought NGOs and investors together to explore what a responsible approach to investments...
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...
Mark Carney will replace Sir Mervyn King as Bank of England governor in July next year, and in doing so, will take on one of the...
Natixis Asset Management has unveiled Mirova; an investment division that it says will have a “global and unique approach to responsible investment”. Philippe Zaouati, deputy CEO...
The business secretary Vince Cable has today called for a “fundamental change” to the way the investment industry works, in response to Professor John Kay’s independent...
WaterAid has urged governments worldwide to invest heavily in access to sanitation and water, after releasing statistics for World Toilet Day 2012 that outline how one...
Over the last two years we’ve written a lot about sustainable investment (AKA ethical, responsible, impact, thematic, clean, etc.). With financial trade outstripping real trade 26:1,...