Banks & Climate Change equals Higher Risk, Higher Near-Term Growth, Fatter Tails. But does that risk the tail wagging the dog when it comes to responsible investing?

We make 20 billion boxes a year for many of the world’s biggest brands, and are an advocate of separate collections for paper and card to improve the quality and quantity of recycling.

Why financial inclusion matters and why banks are key drivers of innovation. People without bank accounts will find it harder to save and plan for the future, harder to pay for and invest in education and healthcare.

Campaigners and protesters are getting impatient. They’ve tried explaining the science, they’ve even asked major corporates nicely, now they are increasingly going to the Courts to seek impactful regulation & accountability. Result!

Governments and others continue to maintain a solid green light for the growth of their populations despite droughts, floods, hurricanes, heatwaves, water scarcity, wildfires, air pollution and other climate-induced changes. Discuss

Most of the hydrogen produced today uses natural gas as a feedstock, which is hardly a zero-carbon fuel.

There is no legal responsibility for technology firms to verify the legitimacy of the companies which pay them to publish adverts on their platforms.

Conference partners Aviva offer another great insight on the approach we should think about when taking on today’s investment challenges.

“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.”
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961)

No one could have predicted the pandemic but, in hindsight, it would have been wise to consider the chance that something would come along and disrupt the incredible bull market of the previous decade.

Novel methods of devising systematic investment and asset allocation frameworks that are uniquely informed by a new generation of political risk indicators.

The money supply in the US exploded after the shuttering of the economy; however, the former appears to have been completely negated by the deceleration in velocity of money.

Wider economic benefits will accrue from the reduction in the cost of food in the form of increased disposable incomes and from the wealth, jobs, and taxes that come from leading the way in modern food technologies.

Sweden has more discarded phones than people, topping the unenviable league-table of electronic household waste

Historical context, assertive regulations are very much par for the course in the Chinese economy summing up the advice to effectively take a chilled view on the outcomes. But isn’t that what the captain of the Titanic said at the time?

• US inflation is expected to be transitory

• Fed is likely to react late if inflation turns out to be permanent

• Equities remain more attractive than government bonds

The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced a wide-ranging initiative to combat climate change. We argue that the best way to address this challenge is through marketbased capital allocation mechanisms, not monetary policy.

APPROACHES TO SETTING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS FROM GIIN

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) consults for stronger incentives to encourage more people to seek guidance from Pension Wise

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