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Lies, damned lies and sustainability reports

By Ty Lee , WHEB Asset Management on 15 May 2012 Thematic Blog | Market Blog

How much is 122 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide? If you think it sounds like a lot, you’d be right – it is more than four times the entire planet’s production of CO2 in 2009. It is also the amount that Italian energy utility Enel reported that it produced in 2009. As the...

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Global | WHEB

What the shale oil counter-revolution means for clean energy

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 10 May 2012 Market Blog

More big changes are afoot in the shifting sands of the global energy industry. Crude oil derived from shale formations (‘Shale Oil’) suddenly has the potential to create an abundance of hydrocarbon energy for transportation, where previously it was in short and ever-dwindling supply....

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Financial services least-trusted industry

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 8 May 2012

To the surprise of presumably almost nobody, the economic crisis has made the general public more than a little wary of the financial services industry. The latest 'trust barometer' published by Edelman suggests that the financial services industry is trusted by only 41% of people in the US, but by...

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A shareholder spring

By Tim Dieppe , WHEB Asset Management on 3 May 2012 Market Blog

As the FT pointed out today: “shareholders are revolting, and not in the way Occupy might claim.” One positive consequence of the financial crisis is increased scrutiny of executive pay with shareholders no longer content to sit back and see executives take home excessive pay packages.

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Global | Ethical | WHEB

Sarasin help the IFA community look beyond just financial returns

By Mark Hoskin , Holden & Partners on 2 May 2012 Market Blog

I can fully recommend taking up the offer of a meeting at Sarasin's offices. The Board room where the EIA (Ethical Investment Association) met on Tuesday must be one of the most interesting board rooms in London to have a meeting, overlooking as it does St Paul's Cathedral and the London Stock...

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Global | Ethical | Sarasin

A great quarter for ethical stocks

By Mark Hoskin , Holden & Partners on 25 April 2012 Market Blog

Commentators and IFAs are fixated on how ethical screens impact on the risk an investor is taking and the returns he can expect as a result. At Holden & Partners our experience when looking at the UK stock market is that ethical stocks do perform differently to the stock market as a whole,...

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Market background still positive for energy efficiency

By Ty Lee , WHEB Asset Management on 17 April 2012 Market Blog | Fund Blog

I recently attended the UBS Global Clean Energy and Utilities Conference and met with some analysts in the clean tech field. It is clear that the market backdrop is still more favourable to energy efficiency, whereas the renewable energy sector continues to be challenging.

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| Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental

Oh dear what can the matter be

By Mark Hoskin , Holden & Partners on 15 April 2012 Market Blog

Henderson, Aviva, SWIP and of course F&C.... have all had strategic reviews or are in the middle of them and cutting through the PR jargon it seems 'ethical' investing is under attack. At least ethical investing as we know it. Now many of you might say, 'well who cares?' I make no judgement on...

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UK | Ethical

Solar shakeout: sun rise in the East, set in the West

By Hyewon Kong , WHEB Asset Management on 4 April 2012 Thematic Blog

This week Q-Cells, once the world’s largest solar manufacturer, filed for insolvency. Its share price dramatically fell below €0.2 from its peak of €80 back in 2007. As an investor who has been following the solar industry for many years, I have very mixed feelings about the...

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| Clean Energy, Environmental

The fallout from UK new nuclear

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 2 April 2012

Last Thursday, the two giant German electricity utilities E.On and RWE announced that they would abandon their plans for new UK nuclear power plants. This is a major blow for proponents of the technology here in the UK, and creates serious problems for much-heralded ‘third...

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