June 2024
Why top companies are starting to back away from green targets
In the past year, many of the world’s biggest companies have dropped or missed goals to cut emissions or to loosen ties with polluting sectors.
November 2023
Chequebook COP: The UAE’s $200b bid for climate influence
The host of the COP28 climate summit is investing big in clean energy to ensure talks are a success — and possibly to sway the outcome, critics say.
October 2023
Middle East oil chief urges fossil fuel ‘phase down’
The head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and chair of this year’s UN climate summit, is pushing for greater investment in decarbonisation.
September 2023
What Sunak’s net-zero pivot means for UK climate goals
The British Prime Minister says the UK could reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 without having to inconvenience the public. Experts are sceptical.
March 2021
Disaster strikes as Deliveroo becomes ‘worst IPO in London’s history’
The dramatic failure of London’s biggest tech IPO is likely to dampen the hopes of the British government to attract other high-growth companies to list in the UK, ahead of growing competition from exchanges such as Amsterdam.
July 2020
BNP Paribas fund arm braces for ‘mother of all recessions’
Frédéric Janbon poured cold water on the idea of a swift recovery from the pandemic following 'a very, very substantial drop in activities in pretty much all of the economies in the world'.
June 2020
Investors dismiss prospect of ‘V-shaped’ recovery
Investment management professionals have rubbished the idea of a quick global recovery from the coronavirus crisis, warning of several years of stagnation.
January 2020
Australian investors under scrutiny over climate change
Asset managers, including Macquarie and Pendal Group, and pension funds such as UniSuper and Equipsuper failed to support climate change resolutions at Australian businesses last year.
Shareholders demand British bosses increase ‘skin in the game’
The issue is set to be one of the themes dominating negotiations ahead of this year’s annual general meeting season.
December 2019
Investors now fear Corbyn more than Brexit
As the country gears up for its Brexit election, the prospect of the UK leaving the EU is no longer the biggest concern for many investors. The FT's Attracta Mooney reports.