“Environmental activists target Baillie Gifford”

Jan 24, 2020 | Ethical investing

Here’s some great, joined-up corporate thinking. A couple of days ago we read about one of Baille Gifford’s fund managers who said that ‘oil and gas stocks could be worthless within five years’. And today, Extinction Rebellion are protesting outside their offices because another has increased their investment in fossil fuel companies. Lip service, incompetence or left-hand/right-hand? Wouldn’t be ethical of me to voice an opinion.

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“Oh no! Not another ESG article”

“Oh no! Not another ESG article”

If you mentioned ethical sustainable investments to anyone in this business a year or two ago, they’d say limited markets, is it worth it for a few yoghurt-weaving sandal-wearers, clients just want performance and other unaware stuff. Now ethical, or at least its...