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...He previously told the Financial Times that Inclusive did not have any ESG investors, adding that the movement “is kind of a virtue-signalling exercise for asset owners”....
...In July, Farmers quietly pulled out of Florida amid exploding costs, prompting the state’s chief financial officer to accuse the insurer of “virtue signalling” on environmental, social and governance (ESG...
...As the ridership increases, just the cost begins to - on a per-mile basis or a per-trip basis - just drops, just by virtue of the scale....
...One was the IRA’s Patrick Magee, who had bombed the Brighton Grand Hotel during the Conservative party conference in 1984 killing five people....
...The end of corporate virtue signalling As political consultant Bruce Mehlman put it in his 2024 look-ahead, companies will start focusing on “value, not values” as the blow-up at Harvard and the University...
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
...I’m not someone who’s allergic to the word virtue. And I hate the term virtue-signalling. And I think all those debates are incredibly reductive....
...via Dublin as Northern Ireland has no direct flights to the US) to hear the virtues of investing in the region....
...“We think a significant increase in concessionary funding could be created by virtue of being more creative in the application of the current rules,” Kerry said....
...Free societies will die if those with influence, wealth and power lack that virtue. martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on Twitter...
...There are some witty lines — “I’m from Nebraska: dust is a food group” — and one of the standout songs, led by Patrick Munday’s excellent Frankie, is “Paradise”, a sarcastic number extolling the “virtues...
...These days, companies of all stripes are scrambling to demonstrate virtue in hiring a diverse workforce....
...It is a year since Andy Haldane, then the Bank of England’s chief economist, delivered a lecture to the UCL Economist’s Society, extolling the virtues of independent central banks....
...An Octoroon’s central taboo-defying conceit cocks a snook at the concept of “colour-blind casting”, which is the theme of a bracing opening monologue by the playwright’s alter ego BJJ (Patrick Martins)....
...Meanwhile activists are starting to use proxy ballots to pressure companies to make their positions on access to abortion clear, writes Patrick Temple-West, even as conservative politicians threaten to go...
...Perhaps it’s a sign of the times: for all the private equity potential in European telecoms, patience is a virtue....
...We believe work is a virtue. We agree with the road haulage king Eddie Stobart who said: ‘the only place success comes before work is the dictionary.’...
...Humane as ever, he adds two practical virtues: intellectual moderation and a feel for the achievable....
...Patrick Hidder, who leads the group, describes a frenzied industry with a mish-mash of contraptions and closely guarded secrets....
...It’s the colour of masculinity in crisis too, he says, whether the violence of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho or Reservoir Dogs’ killers, disappearing in their black suits....
...If wokeness is seen by Generation Z as one of its virtues, instant gratification may be its vice. Takeaways ordered by smartphone and delivered within minutes. Streamed movies on demand....
...Rarely have debates about the (green) virtues and vices of data centres been so important....
...Wells Fargo Aims to Weed Out ‘Confusion’ and ‘Misinformation’ through ESG Research (FundFire) The Wrong Way to Respond to Employee Activism (HBR) How to design CEO pay to punish iniquity, not just reward virtue...
...Or if you know a student or young professional who is interested in finance but wants to improve the world, give them Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing To Society In A Conflicted Industry by JC de...
...Today’s CEOs “will all be retired or dead” by 2050, says Patrick McCully, Rainforest Action Network’s climate and energy programme director, a little harshly....
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