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Does shareholder activism make a positive difference?
By our staff reporter We’ve seen a big increase in shareholder activism recent years. But does it actually have any proven benefits? According to a recent report by Willis Towers Watson, yes it does. The WTW report, Investor stewardship: One hand on the wheel?, states that “Arguably, good stewardship is the most useful […]
How to mend Hargreaves Lansdown
Hargreaves Lansdown is a Goliath of the UK investing industry. But its integral role in the Neil Woodford scandal has put it in the spotlight. I wrote four years ago about how HL is built on a lie and how it needed a new business model. Its need is even greater now. In this […]
Can the UK become a global champion in impact investing?
By our staff reporter A new body is aiming to make impact investing simpler and more transparent, and to help establish the UK as a global champion in this fast-growing sector. The Impact Investing Institute, brings together the former UK National Advisory Board (UK NAB) on Impact Investing and the Implementation Taskforce on […]
ShareAction: Why we’re offering free training to shareholder activists
By our staff reporter Catherine Howarth is one of the leading names in sustainable investing in the UK. ShareAction, the London-based charity and lobby group of which she’s been Chief Executive since 2008, campaigns for responsible and ethical investment, specifically using shareholder activism as a tool for transforming business behaviour. ShareAction works with […]
Five things I learned at The Values-Based Adviser
I’m usually wary of making predictions, but here are two things I can predict with absolute certainty. The Values-Based Adviser. Ten years from now: — independent, peer-reviewed evidence will play a much bigger part in investment decisions than it does today, and — most investors will invest at least some of their assets in sustainable funds. […]
Should sustainable investors own or avoid “irresponsible” stocks?
A hugely important issue for sustainable investors is this. Should you own a stock you disapprove of — an oil company or cigarette manufacturer, for example — or should you divest? As yet, there is no clear consensus. Some academics — Elroy Dimson from the University of Cambridge, for example — have argued that investors can have […]
Does divestment produce positive results?
By our staff reporter A few weeks ago on TEBI we posed the question, Do sustainable investors behave better? We focused in particular on research conducted by DEREK HORSTMEYER, Assistant Professor of Finance at the George Mason University School of Business in Virginia. Using investor data from Morningstar for the ten-year period up to 2017, […]
Free sustainable investing event in Leeds on 9th July
Are you a financial adviser, investment consultant or fund trustee? Do you want to learn more about ESG and impact investing? You may like to know that we’re helping to run a free one-day event in Leeds on Tuesday 9th July to highlight the latest developments in this increasingly important sector. The event is […]
