Talk about climate change. Criticism of sustainable investment has boiled over since the end of the pandemic, particularly in the US. That will not worry Ian Simm, founder of UK sustainability stalwart Impax Asset Management. Business has held up nicely of late, suggesting that the…

Amid the economic gloom and ongoing conflict in Ukraine, there are signs of a return to normality. The Golden Globes awards ceremony is back this week in its Los Angeles home, after boycotts over a lack of diversity led to the cancellation of the event…

Soaring prices, the energy crisis, higher interest rates and war in Ukraine. Given those circumstances, European markets did well to only decline by one-tenth last year, as measured by the Stoxx 600 Europe equity index. This could be one reason investors are dangerously complacent about…

The UK government is exaggerating the benefits of its landmark financial reforms and being “disingenuous” in describing it as a Brexit dividend, according to the Conservative chair of a key parliamentary watchdog. The landmark reform package was announced in Edinburgh last month by Chancellor Jeremy…

The shift to electric vehicles and renewable power is utterly reliant on metals such as lithium, nickel and cobalt.So as China reopens and Joe Biden’s bumper green spending package boosts EV demand in the US, the boom in metal prices should be a win-win for…

European stocks and US futures rose on Monday, as investors bet that cooling inflation on either side of the Atlantic will allow central banks to slow the pace at which they raise interest rates early this year. The regional Stoxx Europe 600 climbed 0.4 per…