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Busting the myths around sustainable investing: Part 1
Jamie Crawley

Jamie Crawley Reporter at Finextra

Busting the myths around sustainable investing: Part 1

Several assertions are made about sustainable investing – how reliable returns are, how complicated it is, how viable it is in a challenging economic environment and so on. Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk and Finextra Research contributing editor, has been discussing these claims with industry experts, to tackle some of the oft-heard com...

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How social impact investing initiatives are leading by example
Richard Peers

Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

How social impact investing initiatives are leading by example

Sarah Gordon, CEO, Impact Investing Institute (III), and I sat down across a virtual desk last week to discuss her role, who the III are what they plan to achieve. Sarah started by explaining that the III builds on from previous initiatives around social impact investing that were set after the UK leadership of the G8 in 2012, to see what was stop...

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Pensions for the Planet
Richard Peers

Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

Pensions for the Planet

When Richard Curtis, co-founder of Red Nose Day, Make Poverty history and writer/director of a few much loved films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral states that Pensions are going to have the biggest impact on climate change and the UN SDGs, you lean in to learn more. Last week I tuned into an online briefing via The Conduit Club a club for c...

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Rethinking Business at a Rethought conference
Richard Peers

Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

Rethinking Business at a Rethought conference

As we all switch to online conferences, I tuned into a day long event hosted by Imperial College entitled ‘Beyond Sustainability: Radically Rethinking the Purpose of Business’. Mike Coupe, the CEO of Sainsburys, set the scene outlining the journey of the Retailer from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through Environment Social and Governance ...

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Why carbon neutral is the new must-have mantra for banks
Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

Why carbon neutral is the new must-have mantra for banks

Climate change and environmental sustainability are undeniably top of mind for institutions across the financial services landscape. Whether the catalyst was the Greta Thunberg effect, the sheer frequency of extreme weather events, or merely a 2020 resolution, a distinct change of tone has washed over the industry as financial firms at every level...

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