Thematic News (101 articles)

Ten companies to watch

By Mike Appleby, Alliance Trust on 9 May 2013 Thematic News

Below we highlight ten companies which demonstrate the Sustainable Future investment philosophy in practice and where they sit within our sustainability matrix.*

Broken Models

By Neil Brown, on 9 May 2013 Thematic News

Environmental economists have long recognised that great failing of our current economic system is that natural resources are rarely assigned any value. There has been no cost associated with overfishing; wetlands and forests can be depleted without impacting GDP; and there is no cost to using our atmosphere as a CO2dump.

Google: a Sustainable Company?

By Simon Clements, Alliance Trust on 9 May 2013 Thematic News

The Alliance Trust Investments SRI Hub

By Mike Appleby, Alliance Trust on 7 May 2013 Thematic News

Have your say on key sustainability issues. Alliance Trust Investments has launched an SRI hub; an industry meeting point to discuss everything from stock ideas to climate change and the Retail Distribution Review.

The collapse of solar giants and the rise of an industry

By Simon Webber, Schroders on 1 May 2013 Thematic News

We examine the collapse of the world's largest Chinese solar manufacturer, Suntech and what impact this might have.

Investing in global agriculture

By Simon Webber, Schroders on 1 May 2013 Thematic News

Agricultural resources are a significant part of our strategy and make up over 10% of our climate change investments. In fact, for the last few years, weather disruption has been the biggest single factor in keeping grain inventories low and consequently prices high.

Human Rights: Human Wrongs

By Neville White, Ecclesiastical on 26 February 2013 Thematic News

Ecclesiastical's recent Amnity Insight report "Human Rights: Human Wrongs" examines human rights as an emerging corporate risk and what businesses should do to address this.

2013: A year in global climate change

By Simon Webber, Schroders on 23 January 2013 Thematic News

2012 has been yet another year of extreme natural weather. However, international policy progress to limit climate change has been meagre at best and as a result we believe adaptation is a rising theme.

Feeding the world: the crisis, risks and opportunities.

By Arabella Murphy, Worldwise Investor on 22 January 2013 Thematic News

The Food and Agriculture organisation estimates that $83 billion per annum needs to be spent over the next 30 to 40 years in order to actually meet the population’s food requirements by 2050. But the need for solutions that are both sustainable and ethical is increasingly required. We ask Ecclesiastical Invesment Management how they see the future of investing in such solutions and why...

Key Investment Themes Low Carbon Fossil Fuels

By Simon Webber, Schroders on 11 December 2012 Thematic News

With gas such a crucial fuel in the transition to a low carbon economy Schroders talk about how this will affect the climate change strategy.