Why shareholder engagement is a great investment in all our futuresÂ
Activist investors have the power to direct the corporate world to embrace positive change. Kristin Hull offers a four-step guide to effective engagement....
8 March 2024 • by Jon Danielsson, Andreas Uthemann in Finance • 6 min read
As AI is increasingly used in the financial system, it exacerbates existing sources of instability and creates new ones. What we should be worried about, say Jon Danielsson and Andreas Uthemann, is...
Continue reading11 January 2024 • by Kristin Hull in Finance • 8 min read
Activist investors have the power to direct the corporate world to embrace positive change. Kristin Hull offers a four-step guide to effective engagement....
19 December 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Finance • 7 min read
Impact investor Lisa Barclay explains how Nesta is building a virtuous circle of investment in UK startups....
8 December 2023 in Finance • 6 min read • Podcast available
Climate finance is the hottest topic on the table when it comes to doing something tangible about climate change. We urgently need to propagate the “hows” around investing in positive values....
27 November 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Finance • 9 min read
The Church of England has moved away from engagement and sold its fossil fuel shares, but to whose benefit? The shares have most likely been bought by investors who care little about...
15 November 2023 • by Camilla Erencin, Simon J. Evenett, Alexander Gruber, Felix Reitz in Finance • 5 min read
Traditional accounting measures often obscure the underlying health of firms and capitalist economies by ignoring the opportunity cost of capital and the potential value from R&D investment. Here we explain why these...
14 November 2023 • by Arturo Bris in Finance • 4 min read
With Bitcoin at a 17-month high and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of fraud, Professor Arturo Bris reckons that the outlook for digital currencies has never been rosier....
8 November 2023 • by Camilla Erencin, Simon J. Evenett, Alexander Gruber, Felix Reitz in Finance • 6 min read
With society facing a number of critical challenges, such as the transition to a low-carbon economy, digital disruption, and aging populations, demands are growing on businesses to divert some of their economic...
11 October 2023 • by Michael Yaziji in Finance • 5 min read
Companies have a tightrope to walk in balancing the competing interests of a broad set of critical stakeholders. This three-step framework can crystallize the delicate trade-offs -- leading to better, more informed...
6 October 2023 • by Vanina Farber in Finance • 8 min read
As the existential threat to human survival becomes ever starker, what will it take to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to tackle the climate, nature and social crises? ...
2 October 2023 in Finance • 7 min read • Podcast available
What’s stopping more female entrepreneurs from setting up or scaling-up their businesses? It’s not ambition, but a lack of female investors – and a fear of taking control of the finances....
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