Hints and tips:
...Odey’s pending application to Buck’s still lists his occupation as “investor” and filings for his holding company say he is “exploring alternative business opportunities”....
...FTSE 100 wealth manager St James’s Place’s business model is coming under scrutiny....
...Adjusted earnings of almost $40bn reflect a year of tumult in energy markets sparked by the war in Ukraine....
...party from doing anything too extreme....
...Shueb sought to explain the group’s goal as “one simple thing — [to] create value for our shareholders by investing in different portfolios, not one stream of investment”....
...In doing so, he effectively greenlit a bill designed explicitly to speed the expansion of green energy — and displace coal. The coal industry was furious....
...You can wait patiently for the slow burners to ignite — I think of Serica Energy, whose share price went sideways for several years but is up 120 per cent in the past year....
...As well as going after criminals, he aimed to shift South Africa’s energy mix towards renewable energy....
...Ultimately, a lot will depend on the relative support offered by different governments for household/business energy prices....
...This is the easiest to deal with as the contamination is limited and it can be buried in sites with less elaborate safety procedures....
...‘Sustainable’ (Ignites)...
...In a sector dominated by family-owned groups, luxury has never been known for its top-notch governance, nor its transparency in terms of business metrics....
...“Sure, ESG is by no means perfect . . . but to write off the entire ESG space as misrepresenting what they’re doing and having no impact at all is just plain wrong,” said Martin Whittaker, head of Just Capital...
...We still don’t know how rigorous the implementation of these rules will be but they will nonetheless be an additional burden to doing business....
...But that raises questions over whether juicy growth prospects across corporate China are countered by the capacity of the government to overhaul entire business models overnight....
...the new “statement of purpose” published by the Business Roundtable....
...With a serious capital expenditure programme such as the EU’s green deal, these countries could ignite an acronym darling of their own....
...Our weekend Big Read looked at the politicisation of American business....
...Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...The would-be standard-setters — such as the Global Reporting Initiative, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) — all share a similar goal, but...
...(Billy Nauman) Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...cost its investors $90bn over the past decade by holding on to fossil fuel stocks....
...Putin’s propaganda portrays him as the bringer of plenty, boosted by an opportune six-fold surge in global oil prices between 1998 and 2008 that vastly inflated Russia’s income from energy exports....
...Pemex will offer far more limited service contracts in November, but with little upside for the private partners, they are widely seen as unattractive....
...received by investors and advisers, as would the business’s clear fee structure....
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