Sustainable investment boom sees huge surge in ESG funds With the rising popularity of ESG funds, investors have to be careful not to fall foul of greenwashing. Proposed EU regulations may help them to do just that 2020 was a watershed year for ESG funds. Investment strategies that take environmental, social and corporate governance…
Screened out by a computer? What job interviews are like without human beings Experts predict “asynchronous” one-way interviews will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic As the coronavirus pandemic continues, job-seekers expect to attend employment interviews online. But increasingly, the employers and recruiters looking to hire are sitting those same interviews out. Instead of asking candidates questions face-to-face, many…
Hedge fund manager Hohn pays himself $479m Pay-out marks one of the biggest ever in the UK after his firm’s profits surge “Christopher Hohn described himself as ‘an unbelievable moneymaker’ in 2014 court testimony during his divorce” Billionaire hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Hohn has paid himself a dividend of $479m, one of the…
Why you should resist the urge to multitask during Zoom meetings It’s so tempting, but it can wreak havoc on your productivity. Here’s how to find your focus instead. We’ve all heard that multitasking is bad and switching between activities makes it harder to complete them. But let’s be honest—many of us multitask…
First Woman, First African to Lead WTO: Who’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala? Dr Okonjo-Iweala has earlier broken glass ceilings as Nigeria’s first woman foreign minister and finance minister. Over 26 years since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a woman has never helmed the international body that deals with global trade rules, resolves trade…
Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share trading hub UK’s departure from the EU prompts shift in dealing of stocks and derivatives Amsterdam surpassed London as Europe’s largest share trading centre last month as the Netherlands scooped up business lost by the UK since Brexit. An average €9.2bn shares a day were traded on…
Musk’s Tesla says it invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin, sending the cryptocurrency to record levels near $44,000 Tesla plans to accept bitcoin as payment for its products, filings with regulators on Monday show Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. said that it has acquired $1.5 billion in bitcoins in January and that it could accept the…
Boomers Are Going to Drive a Silver Surge Companies tend to neglect older generations, focusing instead on millennials and Gen Z. Such a strategy will be costly this year. Companies long to partner with the Kardashians. Over the past couple of years, we have seen beauty leader Coty Inc., for example, strike cosmetics deals with both Kim Kardashian…
2 short sellers admit defeat, bail out at huge loss as GameStop share surge hits 1000% Short sellers Andrew Left and Melvin Capital take huge losses to cover their bad bets “Prominent short seller Andrew Left, has admitted he has taken a 100 per cent loss on his bet against GameStop” In the David…
European firms improve diversity scores in pandemic year, study finds The number of major European companies with high participation of women in leadership positions has doubled over the past year, but there was less progress on top jobs, a study by a EU-sponsored non-profit organization showed on Thursday. Brussels-based association European Women on Boards,…
