Many investors are well versed in the attractions of renewable energy as an investment theme, and retail fund flows into green energy and environmental funds continued unabated even during the market sell-off caused by the pandemic. The move to a zero-carbon future will increase the need for energy storage capacity, and one less well-researched area of the clean energy market is battery energy ...

In the last five years chief executive Tony Dalwood and his team have utterly transformed investment company Gresham House (GHE:AIM). The company has amassed £3.3 billion of assets under management (AUM) and established itself as a specialist alternatives asset manager with a strong focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Clients range from high net worth individuals ...

Last Friday (20 Sep) saw coordinated demonstrations around the world by young people angry at what they see as a lack of progress by governments and businesses in tackling climate change. This topic is becoming increasingly important to investors. The latest data from the World Meteorological Organization shows that the five-year period from 2014 to 2019 is the warmest on record. The amount ...

Anyone who has picked up a newspaper or tuned into the news in the last fortnight will have noticed that climate change has managed to topple Brexit as the hot topic of discussion in the UK. Just a week ago, a group of environmental protesters glued themselves across the entrance to the London Stock Exchange while others staged a ‘die-in’ at the Natural History Museum and thousands more ...