Finance and fintech
Uuuhhhhh… You guys YOLT is shutting down! 😲
Updated: Aug 2, 2022 In a wildcard move, our much-loved smart money app YOLT has decided to close the curtains. They say that their mission is to “give everyone the power to be smart
11 tips for stressed out women to overcome financial anxiety
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 Let me start by saying, it’s not you. It’s the playing field. It’s not f**king level. Over the pandemic, women undertook significantly more housework and childcare than men, often while
My idea for building investment products for wealthy women
Updated: Mar 31, 2023 Ask a child to draw a millionaire twenty years ago, and they’d probably produce a squiggly sketch of middle-aged white man. Most likely, he’d be suited, booted and swinging a
Blue-Winged Mysteries 🦋
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 A new way of writing about ESG and sustainability… I’m calling this short story Blue Winged Mysteries. But it could also be called “Change your pension to something green! Quick!”
“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.