WHEB sustainable impact fund

For readers who have yet to discover the great British comedy ‘The Fast Show’, you are in for a treat. I was reminded of one of the show’s characters known as...

The dramatic growth in ESG and sustainable investing over the past few years is now well documented. What was once a sleepy backwater of the financial industry is now...

Excluding defence companies has long been common practice for responsible investors. At a minimum, most negatively screened “Ethical” funds exclude the controversial...

In recent years there has been rapid growth in the volume of capital being invested in impact strategies. This growth has led to concerns that there has concurrently...

While there is an increasing number of electric vehicles on roads, the number of public chargers remains static. In fact, Google search growth for “EV charging” is 1.5...

Gas prices in the UK shot up by 37% in a single day in early October. This was on top of a near trebling in price since the Summer of last year.The UK has become more...

Like many others, the COVID-19 lock-downs were an opportunity to develop new hobbies. One of my new hobbies was to join a film club. A few months ago, we watched ‘The...

Last month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the latest report from its first Working Group. There are three Working Groups and Working...

The WHEB investment strategy has evolved considerably over the past 15 years. But the core has always been quite simple. We invest in companies that provide solutions...

A disappointing roadshow lunch. In 2016, I attended a roadshow lunch for an upcoming initial public offering (IPO). This was of course in the “good old days” before...