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Divestment

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Princeton University
    Princeton reverses ban on fossil fuel companies funding research

    Officials claim university’s policy harmed scholars working to combat effects of climate change

    Princeton University students participate in a protest on campus against the university’s fossil fuel investments
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    News in-depthGlencore
    ‘Cash is king’: Why Glencore kept faith with coal

    Chief Gary Nagle is accused of using shift in investor attitudes on ESG as smokescreen for dropping plans to ditch coal business

    Stockpiles of coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Newcastle, Australia
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The limits of divestment activism

    Today’s fund management industry is less pliable than protesters think it is

    A sign held by a student marching around the Columbia university encampment reads Disclose Divest We will not stop! We will not rest!
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    John Gapper
    The Baillie Gifford boycott does more harm than good

    Campaigning against the asset manager has shallow logic and will make the literary world poorer

    Signs that include Baillie Gifford are removed in Hay-on-Wye, Wales
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    Lex PopuliImpact investing
    Divesting shares: does it work?

    Offloading shares for moral reasons needs to be part of an overarching strategy

    Demonstrators join the March to End Fossil Fuels protest in New York last year
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    GSK sells off remaining stake in Haleon

    Sale of 4.2% holding raises £1.25bn for pharmaceutical group as it shifts focus to high-value drugs

    A Haleon sign
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    US universities resist calls to divest from Israel-linked companies

    Officials cite barriers to meeting boycott movement’s demands despite precedents on other topics

    A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after an encampment protesting the Israel-Hamas war was taken down at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    ESG investing
    Oxford under fire for increasing fossil fuel investments

    University’s exposure has risen despite landmark 2020 commitment to divestment

    students at Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    LexBHP Group Ltd
    BHP/Whitehaven: coal divestment slims BHP’s blast furnace footprint Premium content

    Sale makes strategic sense but Australian miner remains exposed

    Blackwater, a metallurgical coal mine in Queensland, Australia
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Alice Ross
    Best of FT Money 2023: Share divestment isn’t the answer to greener investment

    Selling up means giving up a seat at the table

    A promotional display for the Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Anglican Church
    Church of England dumps oil majors over climate concerns

    Anglican Church announces its endowment and pension funds plan to sell out of 11 groups, including Shell and BP

    Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Business school
    Divestment dilemmas in Russia: business teaching case

    This business school-style case asks readers to make difficult decisions in a time of war

    A man takes down the golden arches of McDonalds store signage
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    Fossil fuel groups hit extra hard by divestment pledges that go viral

    Tweets about investors’ plans have an outsized impact on the value of carbon-intensive companies, research finds

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Worldpay Inc
    US fintech FIS to spin off Worldpay payments business

    Planned split calls time on merchant solutions arm 4 years after being acquired in $43bn deal

    Worldpay payment terminal
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Investors push food companies to go greener

    The ESG movement has the industry in its sights — but complex supply chains make it a tricky target

    An aerial shot of a tractor applying pesticides to a young green crop
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    FT Moral Money Forum
    Making funding flows fair: Must ESG be bad news for emerging markets?

    Calls are growing for investors to focus more on driving impact, and less on dodging risks

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    Cie Financiere Richemont SA
    Cartier owner Richemont takes €2.7bn hit on sale of ecommerce unit

    Activists saw Yoox Net-a-Porter as an unprofitable distraction for Richemont

    Advertising for Net-a-Porter in a New York neighbourhood
  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Moral Money
    Kirin gets tangled in the divestment debate Premium content

    Plus, your reaction to the UN secretary-general’s call for windfall taxes on the oil and gas sector

    Aung San Suu Kyi attends a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague
  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Moral Money
    Fossil fuels: does divestment work? Premium content

    Plus, a vision of a better carbon offset market, and China’s new ESG disclosure rules

    Smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China’s Shanxi province
  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    FT Moral Money Forum
    Divestment: are there better ways to clean up ‘dirty’ companies?

    Even as more asset owners shun fossil fuels, some argue that a combination of engagement and the threat of denying funds would have the most effect

    People working on a leaky oil pipeline which looks like a company line chart. The upward bit of the line is devoid of oil, having been cleaned by the people, indicating that cleaner investments make for better profits
  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    ESG investing
    Environmental activists focus on debt and equity

    Could a two-pronged strategy bring climate laggards into line?

    Hundreds of people joined international environmental movement Extinction Rebellion Boston, with the support of other Boston area climate and social justice organization, in a march on Earth Day in Boston
  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    LexBP PLC
    BP: ditching Rosneft makes BP a smaller but slicker play for income investors Premium content

    Oil major under Bernard Looney sees itself less as a shrunken beast and more focused on returns

    BP chief executive Bernard Looney
  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Impact investing
    Top US pension fund rejects calls for fossil fuel divestment

    California’s $319bn Calstrs retirement plan pushes back against legislators’ new bill

    A firefighter tackles a blazing house in Whittier, California, last month following a bush fire
  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    Serious MoneyStefan Wagstyl
    Emerging markets: where investing and politics meet

    A cleanish list of investable nations could look worryingly short

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Moral Money
    How ESG investors are responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Premium content

    Plus, global talks to cut plastic waste and energy companies creep into ESG funds

    Demonstrators during a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of the UN headquarters in New York, US
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