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Will Capitalism Survive the Long Term?

By Tim Dieppe , WHEB Asset Management on 3 June 2013 Market Blog

“Business leaders today face a choice: We can reform capitalism, or we can let capitalism be reformed for us, through political measures and the pressures of an angry public.”

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Are we secretly pleased about climate change?

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 30 May 2013

If you haven’t yet come across the comedian David Mitchell’s short ‘SoapBox’ on climate change then I recommend you take a look. But behind the humour lies some serious points. Much of the environmental challenges that we face “aren’t much fun”, as he...

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The end of the line for landfill

By Peter Michaelis , Alliance Trust on 11 May 2013 Thematic Blog

To an outside observer, the way we use materials in our economies should seem insane. We expend enormous amounts of energy and labour growing, mining, harvesting, refining, manufacturing, transporting, and marketing desirable things. These are then briefly used before being chucked into a hole in...

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Strategic Asset Allocation to Future Proof a Portfolio

By George Latham , WHEB Asset Management on 7 May 2013

Traditionally Asset Allocation has meant choosing between a rigid set of definitions of different Asset Classes for investments: Equities, Bonds, Property, Cash, or geographic allocation between different currency blocks. The determinants of allocation between these categories often boil down...

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Quick thoughts on 'Slow Finance'

By Jade Summer & Tim Dieppe , WHEB Asset Management on 2 May 2013

Book Review: “Slow Finance” by Gervais Williams (Bloomsbury 2011) Gervais Williams has been a successful UK small-cap fund manager for over 25 years. He has written this book in response to the global financial crisis and in order to advocate what he calls: “Slow Finance.”

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Are Financial Advisers Lemmings? A Stern warning to Investors - passive or active

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 25 April 2013 Market Blog

After my last blog on risk I was emailed by a passive Investment House to say that you would not get his investors to believe that you can make any predictions on what might happen in the future. Might I suggest you read the Carbon Tracker report it might just change your perspective a bit??

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The UK Canary in the Carbon Mine

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 19 April 2013 Market Blog

Yesterday the Carbon Tracker Initiative (‘CTI’) launched its second report, with a well-attended event at Bloomberg’s offices. “Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets” picks up where CTI’s original 2011 report left off. The...

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Comatose carbon markets

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 19 April 2013 Thematic Blog

Back in 2009, along with tens of thousands of others, I joined the Climate March as it snaked through Central London demonstrating support for a strong global deal on climate change at the Copenhagen Summit. What was surprising to me on that march was the level of antipathy directed towards the...

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Sustainability should be part of a debate on how we explain Investment Risk

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 15 April 2013 Thematic Blog

In a week in which the Guardian interviewed Jeremy Grantham on why he was starting to actively campaign on environmental issues, I was invited to discuss the topic of risk and sustainability at Citywire in relation to portfolio building and private clients. This was an indication to me of...

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Al Gore's Most Important Talk Ever

By Tim Dieppe , WHEB Asset Management on 20 March 2013 Market Blog

I attended a talk by Al Gore earlier this week hosted by ShareAction (which recently changed its name from Fair Pensions). To my surprise, he described it as: “the most important talk I have ever given.” His mission these days is to promote a shift to a more sustainable capitalism...

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Thanks for that insight Mark. It is depressing to be reminded that hypocrisy is so rife in this...

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