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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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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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The Voluntary Carbon Credit scam goes on

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 15 March 2013 Market Blog

The carbon credit floor introduced by the UK government in April 2013 of £16 does not apply to Voluntary Carbon Credits. Today I was called by a man who had invested £140,000 into Voluntary Carbon Credits. He wanted to know how to sell these now. There is no way to sell these. They are...

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The Voluntary Carbon Credit Scandal - tell your friends and your grandparents!

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 24 October 2012

In my view the sale of voluntary carbon credits is the biggest mis-selling scandal currently going on in today's retail investment markets, but ironically the Financial Services Authority do not consider it within their remit or power to do anything about it...

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5 Reasons to use Ethical Investment funds

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 15 October 2012

In National Ethical Investment Week all investors should have a think about how they are investing. We, as consumers, make numerous ethical choices every week, from buying organic or fair trade produce, to products not tested on animals, to free range chicken but rarely stop to think about...

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The Materiality of Ethics and Ethical Funds

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 9 October 2012 Market Blog

Anyone who has studied to be a professional accountant should appreciate the concept of 'materiality' well. Simply put materiality is that while a number may be incorrect it is not of sufficient size to worry about and spend time on and so is just left. I remember really...

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National Ethical Investment Week (14th to 20th October) needs to give ethical investors confidence

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 8 October 2012 Market Blog

I was asked today to write a review of an ethical investor's choices today for a well known investment magazine. The investor had picked as her two fund choices which she had invested in since 2006, Artemis UK Special Situations and Invesco UK Agressive. Hmmm... Interesting and not...

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It is all about demographics, not ageing

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 19 September 2012 Thematic Blog

As I write this I am on the plane to Gatwick having been lucky enough to be invited to Pictet’s annual Megatrends conference in Geneva. The hotel, the setting over lake Geneva and the hospitality were excellent, but the biggest privilege, though it was not obvious when I accepted the...

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Fund Manager of the Year Awards - Were Royal London robbed?

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 7 July 2012 Market Blog

The scale of this year's Fund Manager of the Year Awards did not give any clue that things were tough in the Investment Funds world. At the Royal Albert Hall with over 100 tables at reputedly £5k a table and banners overhead at £10k there was no shortage of ceremony. There were a number...

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Idle Speculation may bring Resolution

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 28 May 2012 Market Blog

This month F&C announce the second part of their strategic review, but June is also the month in which we may find out where the Aviva SRI team and the Sustainable Future fund range will end up. June could be a big month for 'ethical' funds and bring some resolution to IFAs unsure what to...

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How Capital Markets and the West laugh in the face of carbon emissions - while looking holier than thou!

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

Patrick Smyth | 1 month, 3 weeks ago | read more

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

Mark this is a major challenge for everybody connected to promoting SRI. UKSIF have just been...

Richard Essex | 2 months ago | read more

Al Gore's Most Important Talk Ever

Good point well made.

We need more high profile people like Al Gore to be making...

Richard Essex | 2 months, 3 weeks ago | read more

The Voluntary Carbon Credit scam goes on

I have just come across a site:

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The Voluntary Carbon Credit scam goes on

And here is the response I received to reporting the above matter to the SFO via email. It appears...

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