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Latest acquisition to boost the ethical investment market

By Arabella Murphy, Worldwise Investor on 20 March 2013 Market News

Royal London strikes a deal worth £220m for Co-op's life insurance and asset management arms, including the takeover of 5 sustainable screened funds, enhancing its offerings in the socially responsible investment market.

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Carbon emissions reductions way behind schedule

By Simon Webber, Schroders on 11 December 2012 Thematic News

A PWC study this month calculates that the global carbon intensity improvement required to meet a 2°C warming target has now risen to 5.1% a year, from now to 2050.

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UK | Carbon | Schroder

Triodos Bank tops survey of online savings accounts and it's ethical too!

By Arabella Murphy, Worldwise Investor on 30 October 2012 Thematic News

At a rate of 2.5% for an online savings account Triodos, with its ethical mandate, is currently as competitive as most of the main stream banks, such as ING, Santander and Nationwide. The account has a minimum of £1 and no notice period according to moneyfacts. Why wouldn't you go ethical?

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An Interview with the team behind the new Ethical UK Equity Income Fund

By Mark Hoskin, IFA at Holden & Partners on 22 October 2012 Fund News

A much needed boost has been given today to the Ethical UK equity income sector by the re-launch of Castlefield's UK Equity Income fund, renamed the B.E.S.T Income Equity fund, as an ethical fund. In December 2011 Henderson Global Investors said that ethical and equity income could not be done anymore, but Simon Holman and John Eckersley of Castlefield Investment Partners see it very differently.

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Press Release: New Ethical Equity Income Fund Wins Resounding Vote of Confidence

By Mark Hoskin, IFA at Holden & Partners on 16 October 2012 Fund News

After less than three months since investors gave the green light to the re-launch of the ConBrio BEST Income Fund on 18th July, which saw the fund become one of a select band of ethically invested UK Equity Income funds, the Investment Advisers to the fund, Castlefield, report that funds under management have already increased by 70%, with more cash known to be heading in their direction.

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UK Ethical Funds outperform since Lehman's collapse

By Mark Hoskin, IFA at Holden & Partners on 16 October 2012 Fund News

The financial crisis was caused in part by a moral crisis in society, in which governments made promises they could not keep and bankers sold products to people they didn't understand, to fill their own coffers. In National Ethical Investment Week it is perhaps poetic justice that ethical funds in the UK have done better than the FTSE 100 (as demonstrated by the L&G FTSE 100 tracker) and we feel it is something that you should know about.

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Press release: The Environment is the top ethical issue

By Arabella Murphy, Worldwise Investor on 15 October 2012 Thematic News

The latest results from Worldwise Investor suggest that the environment is the biggest ethical issue amongst ethical investors.

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Schroder's science and policy updates for September

By Simon Webber, Schroders on 24 September 2012 Thematic News

Studies continue to reinforce the risks of climate change to the global food supply as extreme US weather dominates headlines. We look at the importance of the Arctic ice cap as the melt passes the previous 2007 record. Encouragingly, national and regional carbon pricing scheme projects continue to push ahead despite economic constraints.

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UK, Global | Environmental | Schroder

Government to pay householders to generate heat from renewable sources

By Arabella Murphy, Worldwise Investor on 24 September 2012

The government is considering paying householders that generate their own ‘green’ heat such as air and ground-source heat pumps, biomass boilers and solar thermal panels.

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New sustainable development indicators launched

By Carol Wong, Worldwise Investor on 30 July 2012

An informal consultation on a new set of sustainable development indicators (SDIs) has been launched this week by DEFRA, in an effort to develop a more effective measure of economic success than GDP.

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