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Strong climate action could wipe $756bn from individuals’ pension funds and other investments in rich countries

National Employment Savings Trust to shun firms involved in coal, tar sands or arctic drilling

BlackRock CEO says climate crisis will now dictate investments but environmentalists remain wary

CEO reveals step change at world’s largest fund manager and predicts fast reshaping of global finance

MPs want mandatory climate reporting within three years to avoid risk to investments

Investors ought to tell the directors: move aside and get some independent faces in the boardroom

We need to think hard about the kind of future our money is going to support through our investments, writes Mary Stevens of Friends of the Earth. Plus a letter from Margaret SquiresYour article on why women need to start...

Archbishop of Canterbury plays crucial role in BMO Global Asset Management’s decision to dump £20m of shares in firms such as BHP Billiton

Analysis of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation health charity, and 13 other major funds, reveals moving investments out of coal, oil and gas and into green companies would have generated billions in higher returns

Tomorrow, on 22 April, members of the Welsh assembly will have the opportunity to vote for a moratorium on opencast coal mining in Wales. With the existing moratorium on fracking and the demise of the deep coalmining industry,...

Investors who dumped holdings in coal, oil and gas earned an average return of 1.2% more a year over last five years, data from the world’s leading stock market index reveals

At my university theres a strong climate-action group campaigning to get the college to divest its funds from fossil fuels. But what are the wider implications, particularly on research grants? Should I be in or out?If you...

Renewable energy schemes currently offer far greater returns to investors than cash Isas, but there are dangersSavers are being offered returns of up to 9% a year or four times the best available rates on cash Isas by lending...

Power-packed returns as wind and solar power nets Guinness Alternative Energy 11% gainsWind farms off Britain's shores are being cancelled almost weekly...

A new investment fund offers a 6% dividend with the benefit of state subsidies. Patrick Collinson looks at the pros and consA major new fund is promising to pay a yearly dividend of 6%, tax-free if held in an Isa, from...