The impact of green investors
Sustainable investing faces up to the sceptics
SUSTAINABLE INVESTING is in the firing line, as two recent events have shown. Last week, the board of Danone, a French food-maker, fired its boss, Emmanuel Faber, who had long championed the benefits of stakeholder capitalism and sustainability. Shareholders were unhappy with the firm’s languishing share price.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “It is not so easy being green”
Finance & economics March 27th 2021
- Just how anchored are America’s inflation expectations?
- The impact of green investors
- Trade inflows in Asia fuel debate over currency intervention
- Battered Bafin’s new boss Branson
- The Fed and the bond markets
- The economics of falling populations
- America used to be behind on digital payments. Not any more
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