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  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Alice Ross
    Share divestment isn’t the answer to greener investment

    Selling up means giving up a seat at the table

    A promotional display for the Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Anglican Church
    Church of England dumps oil majors over climate concerns

    Anglican Church announces its endowment and pension funds plan to sell out of 11 groups, including Shell and BP

    Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Business school
    Divestment dilemmas in Russia: business teaching case

    This business school-style case asks readers to make difficult decisions in a time of war

    A man takes down the golden arches of McDonalds store signage
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    Fossil fuel groups hit extra hard by divestment pledges that go viral

    Tweets about investors’ plans have an outsized impact on the value of carbon-intensive companies, research finds

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Worldpay Inc
    US fintech FIS to spin off Worldpay payments business

    Planned split calls time on merchant solutions arm 4 years after being acquired in $43bn deal

    Worldpay payment terminal
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Investors push food companies to go greener

    The ESG movement has the industry in its sights — but complex supply chains make it a tricky target

    An aerial shot of a tractor applying pesticides to a young green crop
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    FT Moral Money Forum
    Making funding flows fair: Must ESG be bad news for emerging markets?

    Calls are growing for investors to focus more on driving impact, and less on dodging risks

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    Cie Financiere Richemont SA
    Cartier owner Richemont takes €2.7bn hit on sale of ecommerce unit

    Activists saw Yoox Net-a-Porter as an unprofitable distraction for Richemont

    Advertising for Net-a-Porter in a New York neighbourhood
  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Moral Money
    Kirin gets tangled in the divestment debate Premium content

    Plus, your reaction to the UN secretary-general’s call for windfall taxes on the oil and gas sector

    Aung San Suu Kyi attends a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague
  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Moral Money
    Fossil fuels: does divestment work? Premium content

    Plus, a vision of a better carbon offset market, and China’s new ESG disclosure rules

    Smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China’s Shanxi province
  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    FT Moral Money Forum
    Divestment: are there better ways to clean up ‘dirty’ companies?

    Even as more asset owners shun fossil fuels, some argue that a combination of engagement and the threat of denying funds would have the most effect

    People working on a leaky oil pipeline which looks like a company line chart. The upward bit of the line is devoid of oil, having been cleaned by the people, indicating that cleaner investments make for better profits
  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    ESG investing
    Environmental activists focus on debt and equity

    Could a two-pronged strategy bring climate laggards into line?

    Hundreds of people joined international environmental movement Extinction Rebellion Boston, with the support of other Boston area climate and social justice organization, in a march on Earth Day in Boston
  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    LexBP PLC
    BP: ditching Rosneft makes BP a smaller but slicker play for income investors Premium content

    Oil major under Bernard Looney sees itself less as a shrunken beast and more focused on returns

    BP chief executive Bernard Looney
  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Impact investing
    Top US pension fund rejects calls for fossil fuel divestment

    California’s $319bn Calstrs retirement plan pushes back against legislators’ new bill

    A firefighter tackles a blazing house in Whittier, California, last month following a bush fire
  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    Serious MoneyStefan Wagstyl
    Emerging markets: where investing and politics meet

    A cleanish list of investable nations could look worryingly short

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Moral Money
    How ESG investors are responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Premium content

    Plus, global talks to cut plastic waste and energy companies creep into ESG funds

    Demonstrators during a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of the UN headquarters in New York, US
  • Friday, 24 December, 2021
    Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
    Reckitt to sell E45 skincare brand for £200m

    Sale to Swedish group Karo Pharma is part of UK company’s bid to focus on higher-growth areas

    Packets of Strepsils throat lozenges manufactured by Reckitt
  • Monday, 20 December, 2021
    ESG investing
    Nest dumps ExxonMobil over climate change risks

    UK state-backed pension fund divests from five fossil fuel companies

    An ExxonMobil refinery
  • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
    The Big Read
    Stay or sell? The $110tn investment industry gets tougher on climate

    Some asset managers are tiring of quiet conversations with companies about emissions and are now threatening to divest

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock sells almost half its stake in THG

    Asset manager divests 58m shares in UK ecommerce group at a 10% discount

    A pedestrian wearing a protective mask passes in front of BlackRock headquarters in New York, US
  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    IWG PLC
    IWG considers splitting business to boost value

    Serviced office group to review structure as competition heats up with rival WeWork

    People work inside a Spaces co-working office, operated by IWG
  • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
    Pensions industry
    Dutch pension giant ABP to dump €15bn in fossil fuel holdings

    Retirement scheme says ‘radical change’ needed as global temperatures rise

    An oil platform in the North Sea
  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    FTfm
    Does it pay to steer clear of sin stocks?

    The case for excluding ESG laggards is not clear-cut, though regulation may soon tip the balance

    The BP-Husky Toledo Refinery stands at sunset in Oregon, Ohio, U.S.
  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    FTfm
    Bond funds wrestle with human rights dilemma

    Pressure is growing on managers to stop lending to unsavoury regimes

    A poster in Italy depicts Patrick Zaky, a human rights advocate detained in Egypt
  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    Glencore
    Glencore to buy out partners in Colombian coal mine

    Anglo American and BHP sell out of project as investors push for climate action

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