Invest in the Future, not the Past: 4 Reasons to Divest from Fossil Fuels
With the benefit of hindsight, would you have wanted your pension being invested in cassette tapes, floppy discs, fax machines, Kodak or Blockbuster in 2000?
November 28, 2016
Funding for lending – but who will invest?
Since the financial crisis began, nef has called for more effective use of Quantitative Easing (QE) to support the real economy and fund investment in low-carbon infrastructure. In common with many other monetary experts, we see this as both eminently desirable and entirely possible. The Bank of England and HM Treasury finally seem to be coming round to this view, according to last week’s announcement of ‘Funding for Lending’. So why am I totally unenthusiastic about this scheme?
June 22, 2012