After the Crisis, a Reckoning

After every national trauma, there is the opportunity to do things better in future. It is a chance to redress the most grievous of society’s ills. What will follow the Corona Crisis? We think there will be a renewed attention on the value society places on different contributions to our communal welfare, a new assessment of the value of each person’s labour. And foremost in the firing line will be executive pay.

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The rise of Ethical Investing

It is a truism that the main aim of investing is to make money. But the idea that investors should only be concerned with maximising their return, regardless of the other consequences of their actions, is too simplistic, and the feeling that investors should be concerned with the actions of the companies they invest in, not just the returns they derive from them, has been gaining ground.

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