Thought leadership

Meta is born – Christopher Walker asks is Facebook's rebranding simply a ploy to evade its critics, or is there something genuinely exciting about ‘entering the Metaverse?’

It comes just weeks ahead of an expected update on potential regulatory measures to address greenwashing in Switzerland

Runner-up prizes of 2x £5k also available for the best, investable plans

As the UK throws open the doors for COP26 this week, UKSIF’s James Alexander and Oscar Warwick Thompson outline what the country’s new green finance strategy means for its members

Robert Eccles, Xingchao Gao and Shiva Rajgopal explore what a carbon tax could mean for National Oil Companies and future market dynamics

The PRI’s Sagarika Chatterjee joins the dots on the raft of new Net Zero initiatives in the run up to COP26

David Blood and Colin le Duc on why investors’ current asset allocation calculations will stop the world from decarbonising

…Because Externality-Denying Capitalism is a ‘Fix that Fails’

Investors must stop trying to tackle Diversity, Equity and Inclusion issues by counting heads, and start allocating capital differently, argue Patience Marime-Ball and Jenn Kenning

… but it may have been the necessary ‘defence at first depth’