Finance and fintech
“The sustainable investing industry has a habit of self-sabotage”
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 … A super honest interview with James Purcell! James Purcell is the Group Head of ESG, Sustainable and Impact Investing for Quintet Private Bank. But I know him as the
How can we help men get senior roles in finance? My Story 👫
Updated: Jun 29, 2022 Hi! 👋 I’m Duncan Hannah. I’m 30 years old and I live in London. I’ve been working with Wealth Management for around seven years now. Like every ahem *man*, my
How I unwittingly became part of the greenwash machine 🙈🤢
Updated: Jun 10, 2021 This is the problem with publishing your opinions, isn’t it? Sometimes you find out that you got it wrong. A few weeks ago, I wrote this blog to try and
Enough of the bullsh**! Our banks are greenwashing
Updated: Jul 14, 2022 Fossil fuel companies cannot scale-up without money. They need banks to invest in them or lend some cash. Of course, this is hugely profitable for banks and asset managers. But
How Sustainable Investing is f***ing with managers’ brains
Updated: Jun 11, 2021 From game theories to daddy issues, there’s a lot going on for today’s wealth managers. And this workplace psychology makes a huge impact on the industry approach to Sustainable Investing.
The Unlikely Origins of Sustainable Investing 🤔
The concept of sustainability, derives from the Latin verb ‘sustinere’, meaning ‘to hold’. And like its ancient namesake, it’s not a new thing. Believe it or not, it’s been going on for centuries.
Sustainable Investing has so many meanings, it means nothing
Updated: Aug 6, 2020 ‘Sustainable Investing’ as a term is incredibly broad (Krosinky and Robins, 2012; Gerrard, 2015; Mclean, 2015), and fluid. Over time, different organisations have applied their own individual meanings. And so
Less than 1% of investment managers are black: How can we improve?
Updated: Jun 29, 2022 Across England’s schools, black girls get better grades than white boys[1]. But life after the classroom is not so rosy. People of colour are not represented across positions of power.
A plea to wealth managers: Stop fast fashion greenwashing
Updated: Aug 13, 2020 As part of its commitment to Responsible Investing, Nordea Asset Management recently published a “successful example of engagement” with fast fashion retailer H&M (Hennes Mauritz AB). This is what it
5 more jokes for Investment Managers
Updated: Dec 15, 2022 The analytics speak for themselves, I’m delighted (and baffled) that people seemed to really go for my 10 festive jokes for Investment Managers. So to help you keep on smiling
Support small businesses right now, an interview with Tim Fouracre
The 4th of May, normally known for its Star Wars fanatics, had a grim new record this year. That day, every two seconds, a small business applied for a bounce back loan[1]. More
Fintech is our best chance of saving small businesses
Updated: Feb 18, 2021 What kind of crazy world are we living in, where the man who invented e-commerce is being ignored by the government who invented Brexit? … Where the finest fintech brains