News, Blog & Ethics

The impacts of fossil fuels and carbon intensive business, is a concern for may ethical investors. Here's an example of some of the work being undertaken by investment managers EdenTree, to measure the carbon exposure of their funds so that they can be better informed when engaging with companies.

The late autumn heralds the return of Good Money Week 30th October – 5th November 2016. For the third year running, Ethical Futures are delighted to be running an event in conjunction with Church of Scotland. This year we are bringing in additional partners, including Rathbone Greenbank, Triodos Bank and Shared Interest.

Ethical Futures are looking for someone to join their team as an administrator. The job is permament and full-time. Ideally, you'll have a good knowledge of financial products and processes. Preference is for someone who has previous experience of working in an IFA or life office broker support role. For more information read on.

A brief look at some of the economic theory brought to the foreground since the Brexit referendum.

What does the outcome of Brexit mean for your investments?

If you follow the news, it seems as though every few weeks there’s a story about a big corporate executive and their even bigger bonuses. These eye-watering pay packages seem to come rain or shine. Taking the recent example of BP, you might have heard about how they proposed a staggering £14million pay package to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Dudley. Now, while this amount of money is not far…

A recent study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found that wind power supplied almost half of Scotland’s total energy demand for the month of January.

Despite the perception that ethical funds are all about wind turbines and fair trade; the reality is that most of the funds are focused on finding regular businesses, doing things well. Nothing could typify this more, than investment in the mainstream retail sector and the example investee company, Dunelm, which is held in the Premier fund.

If you pay any attention to the media, it will have been hard to avoid a series of stories regarding investment market turmoil. There is no getting away from the fact that global stock markets have had a torrid time over the last six months and start to the New Year (which usually benefits from New Year optimism) has seen the worst start in investment markets for over two decades.

In January 2014, there was much excitement as websites crashed in the demand to invest in the new NS&I Pensioner Growth Bonds. These bonds, a “rabbit pulled out of the hat” by Chancellor Osborne in the 2013 Budget offered market busting rates at 2.8% for a one-year bond and 4% for a three-year bond.

Fitness trackers are set to become one of the gadgets of Christmas 2015. For those of you who are delighted with this gift, hopefully it’ll inspire you to greater health and fitness – but, have you considered what other impacts it could potentially have, especially on your finances?

Many of us will enjoy a tasty treat with a cup of tea and what could exemplify this more than the iconic Scottish brand of the Tunnocks teacake? However, Tunnocks is one of the latest firms to come under pressure for the use of unsustainable palm oil in their products. An online petition, via the website 38degree.com is currently calling for Tunnocks to stop the use of palm oil in their confectionery production.