Tag Archives: ESG
The geography of our investment matters
I’ve become interested in the geography of investment through a friend who’s in with “the Good Economy’s Place Based Impact Investment Initiative” and I ended up writing a blog on it. I asked my son for his thoughts as he’s … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, pensions
Tagged Bruntswood, ESG, Legal & General, Oliver Tapper, Paul Stanworth, place
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Prem Sikka’s peerage – its value to accounting , governance and pensions
Prem Sikka, too, is an appointment to be welcomed as strengthening the Lords pensions team. Read his monograph from 2006, “Pensions crisis a failure of public policymaking”, https://t.co/xBHu7dgVKJ. Chapter 2: THE PENSIONS CRISIS: FACT AND FICTION explains the valuation and… … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged Accounting, Bryn Davies, Dennis Leech, ESG, House of Lords, pensions, prem sikka, Ros Altmann, Sharon Bowles
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Investing in the right place
I am very pleased to hear about a new project designed to get pension schemes investing in the right place. You can read about it here It’s an initiative that impacts us all, we all pay council tax or at … Continue reading
Posted in ESG, leadership, pensions
Tagged ESG, impact investing institute, LGPS, Make My Money Matter, pensions, Pensions for purpose, the good economy
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Boohoo should test how much we want our money to matter
Are you wearing any of these brands? boohooMAN, PrettyLittleThing, Nasty Gal MissPap. Karen Millen, Oasis Warehouse. Probably not – Boohoo targets the 16-24 year old fashion market and is principally bought by young women. Happily young people have better things … Continue reading
Posted in ESG, pensions
Tagged Boohoo, ESG, Fast fashion, Nasty Gal, Pretty little thing, Sunday Times
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Will COVID promote ESG or destroy it?
This time last year I was talking with BNY Mellon about using AgeWage as an ESG platform to help investors vote their shares. It’s not we decided to do (though there is one Fintech that’s taken up the challenge). The … Continue reading
Posted in ESG, Financial Conduct Authority, pensions
Tagged BNY Mellon, ESG, Lottie Meggitt, Shared value, sustainability
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By their fruits ye shall know them.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, ESG, FCA, governance, investment, pensions
Tagged City of London, Coronavirus, ESG, Heart of the City, HOC
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IGC reports “good to very good”- as L&G closes member helpline.
Since publishing this article , LGIM has made a statement on the closure of the L&G helplines – you can read the statement here L&G’s IGC has published its fifth report for savers ; here is the link for … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, IGC, pensions
Tagged Chair report, COVID19, ESG, IGC, investment pathways, L&G, Legal and General
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The E , S and G of this pandemic.
This blog calls on us all to be kind to each other I believe that the way individuals and businesses behave to each other during the coming months will make a material difference to our day to day lives. But … Continue reading
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Tagged be kind, Be kind to one another, Coronavirus, COVID19, ESG, force majeure, Responsible
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Royal London IGC report – a welcome shift in focus
Royal London are (as usual), the first IGC to report. They have been kind and sent me the Chair’s Statement which saves me searching. But it’s easy to track down here The IGC has delivered a really interesting read which … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pensions, Retirement
Tagged ESG, FCA, IGC, pensions, Peter Dorward, Plan, Responsible Investment, Royal London
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