In Chosen Ones, bestselling author Veronica Roth offers a window into what life could be like for some of our favorite fictional heroes if they lived in our modern-day world. Having written her own “chosen one” story in the hit YA trilogy Divergent, Roth is back with her first adult novel to explore what might...Read More

The U.S. Shut Down Its Economy. Here’s What Needs to Happen in Order to Restart. Whole sectors of the United States economy have gone dark to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Here’s what comes next. A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The ability to restart economic activity will depend...Read More

With the economy coming to a stall, the Federal Government should remap Australia’s energy landscape, writes Tim Buckley. WE ARE IN unchartered conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting global recession. Economic growth has slowed, the energy market has stalled, oil prices and the global stock market have crashed, and a virus without a vaccine...Read More

Since I graduated from the University of Cambridge, I have had one job, worked in one company, and in one industry. I am the founder and CEO of Ramsden International, which I established 25 years ago. Ramsden International is a U.K.-based international grocery wholesaler, and we export more than 24,000 British food and drink products...Read More

ZURICH, March 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — ThomasLloyd, the impact investor and provider of climate-related finance, has raised €339 million from clients through its sustainable investment solutions in the 2019 financial year, representing a considerable year-on-year (2018: €209 million) increase of no less than 63 per cent. The money acquired from clients came to the company...Read More

© Reuters. By Alex Ho Investing.com – Oil prices fell on Monday in Asia despite efforts from global central banks and governments to combat the impact caused by the coronavirus outbreak. On Sunday, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced a massive emergency move by cutting rates to near zero and launching a new quantitative program. “Markets...Read More

ImpactAlpha, March 12 – A modest downturn in demand triggered a crash in oil prices that will strand billions of dollars in fossil fuel assets and, perhaps, signal a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions. That the inciting incident was a worldwide pandemic and not, say, the adoption of electric vehicles or the establishment of a...Read More

ImpactAlpha, March 12 – Toronto-based Engineers Without Borders has been making early-stage venture investments since 2013 as a complement its non-profit global development work. After a dozen investments, the organization is spinning off its venture arm as Hummingbird Impact to expand investments in tech-enabled social enterprises. Engineers Without Borders will remain a shareholder in the...Read More

Environmental and governance factors are more easily quantifiable and applicable to investment strategies than social factors, but investors could be missing out on vital risk management tools, potential performance gains and growing client interest by marginalising the ‘S’ in ESG investing. Governance has long been a focus of investors when analysing investee companies, and in...Read More

This commentary is written by Blake Goud, CEO of the Responsible Finance & Investment (RFI) Foundation, and Jessica Robinson, Founder and Managing Director of Moxie Future, who is also an Emissary with the RFI Foundation. Their article is part of Salaam Gateway’s International Women’s Day 2020 series that is co-designed and curated by Nyra Mahmood, MD of UK-based Simply Sharia Human...Read More