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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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Global | Carbon | WHEB

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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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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Why share ownership is better than share rental

By George Latham , WHEB Asset Management on 12 March 2013 Market Blog

Today, Tuesday the 12th March, is Ownership Day, a new initiative from UK Sustainable Investment and Finance (UKSIF) to raise awareness of the benefits of active ownership strategies in investment management. We are supporters of Ownership Day, and hope it is successful in encouraging asset...

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Global | Multi-thematic | WHEB

Going beyond the sugar rush: Novo Nordisk and sustainable value

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 28 February 2013 Market Blog

It is not often that one’s first meeting of the day starts with an exquisite rendering of a 19th Century Danish hymn by a quartet of professional musicians. The singing along with a crisp, cloudless but decidedly chilly Copenhagen morning served to kick-start a day-long discussion of...

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Global | Multi-thematic | WHEB

The Roots of SRI - or why we don't invest in intensive agriculture

By Clare Brook , WHEB Asset Management on 20 February 2013 Thematic Blog | Market Blog

There is some confusion these days about what SRI actually stands for. It used to mean Socially Responsible Investment, but then people decided that the ‘social’ bit was rather misleading, particularly when many funds in the sector were focused on sustainability, so it was changed...

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Subsidies muddle: Full-fat for nuclear, semi-skimmed for the rest

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 20 February 2013 Market Blog

More rumours in the press today (19 February) about a guaranteed price for nuclear power in the UK.

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Global | Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental | WHEB

Horse meat crisis - Testing times

By Hyewon Kong , WHEB Asset Management on 18 February 2013 Thematic Blog | Market Blog | Fund Blog

The horse meat crisis continues to escalate since last month when Irish food inspectors announced they had found horsemeat in some burgers stocked by UK supermarket chains including Tesco. As it turned out, it was not only the UK and Ireland which had the problem. Germany, Switzerland,...

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Global | Agriculture, Multi-thematic | WHEB

Let's make ethical investment bigger and better in 2013

By Mark Robertson , EIRIS on 28 January 2013 Market Blog

In the UK 2012 has been an interesting year for ethical investment. Big scandals have hit big banks, consumer protests and investor revolts on tax avoidance and executive pay made headline news and campaigns such as ‘Move Your Money’ and ‘National Ethical Investment Week’...

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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 | 4 weeks, 1 day 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...

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Good point well made.

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