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A number of leading ethical investment funds continue to hold shares in Grenfell fire firm Kingspan By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 23 January 2021 A number of leading ethical investment funds continue to hold shares in Irish building materials business Kingspan. This is … Read more
Saving the planet and making big business more accountable are two of the greatest challenges of our lifetime, which explains why ESG – environmental, social and governance – investing is always at the centre of controversy. The latest row, this time at Chartwell, a division of catering group Compass, highlights the more assertive mood among … Read more
Investors have piled in to ethical funds in droves after the coronavirus pandemic forced British homes and businesses into lockdown earlier this year. Between January and September a massive £7billion poured into environmental, social and corporate governance funds, up from £1.9billion over the same period a year earlier, according to the Investment Association. Experts posit … Read more
The past six months has seen a surge in people wanting to make the economy greener, with a third of Britons stating the pandemic has sharpened their focus when it comes to the environment. Asked what the Covid-19 outbreak had focused their minds on, 31 per cent said their pandemic experience has increased awareness of climate … Read more
A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more
A vegan animal rights activist was wrongfully dismissed for blowing the whistle on an anti-hunting charity’s ‘unethical’ pension investments, a tribunal heard today. Jordi Casamitjana, 56, was sacked from his position as head of policy and research at the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) in April 2018 after sending an email to colleagues about alternative … Read more
Businesses are outraged over the six months of fresh Brexit purgatory to which they are condemned, but there are some problems that are even more difficult than extricating ourselves from the EU. Climate change, to name one. It used to be left to the lentil-munchers, but it has gone mainstream in the financial world as … Read more