A persistent gender divide in financial literacy and confidence in investment markets and products is impairing women’s ability to build wealth, according to Handelsbanken Wealth & Asset Management’s latest report. Building your financial future: Are you in control? revealed just 19% of adult women feel they received a good education on managing money in school compared to 23% of men,…

A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  Corporates took the long view on renewable energy, while policymakers made extended commitments on security. Collective energy engagement – There were positive signals this week for the pace of migration by big business to renewable energy sources. Under the aegis of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, pharmaceuticals giants…

Regulatory change poses financial risk to firms that do not adopt sustainable manufacturing processes, explains Jillian Stacy, Business Manager for Sustainable Chemistry at Enhesa. Despite all the effort put into corporate sustainability – from the appointments of chief sustainability officers and chief risk officers to the development of detailed sustainability reports and materiality assessments – most companies still have a…

Trump 2.0 could see more green investors look towards China, says Cary Krosinsky, President of the Sustainable Finance Institute.  A few years ago, the Sustainable Finance Institute (SFI), developed a new ESG+ index for the China Securities Index Company – “ESG with Chinese characteristics”, as Cary Krosinsky, the SFI’s Co-Founder and President, calls it.  ESG+ enjoyed some success, but interest…

Gender equality in funding and entrepreneurship is a goal everyone should fight for, says Alex Smith, Co-founder of FuturePlus. This year’s International Women’s Day falls under a long shadow that illustrates quite how much more work there is to be done to achieve true equity and inclusion for women in business. “Competent white men must be in charge if you…

Gender equality in funding and entrepreneurship is a goal everyone should fight for, says Alex Smith, Co-founder of FuturePlus. This year’s International Women’s Day falls under a long shadow that illustrates quite how much more work there is to be done to achieve true equity and inclusion for women in business. “Competent white men must be in charge if you…