A pre-election budget and its accompanying budget speech, is often amongst the most interesting of government communications, seeking to balance not only the books but […]
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Keynotes Winter 1997 – Ken Clarke’s Magic Budget – Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
we thought you would like to see the second ever Keynotes produced back during the winter of 1996/97. The two page newsletter examined the last budget of the Conservative Government under John Major and challenged the common misperception of the previous eighteen years of Tory rule as an era of low taxation. It is worth the effort to read, despite the poor quality,
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The top of the World? Global Shares – A Good Time to Invest? A picture tells a thousand words, or so we are told. […]
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Anti-Austerity – Political Choice or Economic Disaster? Greece, the ancient cradle of world knowledge, culture, intellectual understanding, philosophy, mathematics, science and politics, has often been […]
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Greece, Oil and Europe: A Recipe for a Messy Ending? The short answer is probably not. But please don’t let this stop you reading on, […]
Continue readingChris Welsford makes Keynote Speech at Sustainable Investment Conference
Chris Welsford has presented the Keynote speech to fund managers and advisers at this year’s Investment Week Sustainable Investment Conference in London last Friday.
Chris’s presentation looked at the apparent mismatch between investor requirements and what they are offered by the Socially Responsible Investment funds industry. The presentation drew on research carried out by Tridos Bank and Mining Watch Canada.
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