Could ESG trump oil for older investors?
At the FT Weekend Festival last weekend, Rhian-Mari Thomas, chief executive of the new (and exciting) Green Finance Institute, pointed out to the audience that, over the past decade, green has firmly trumped black. If you had invested in the FTSE All-...
Ovo to buy SSE retail energy business in £500m deal
Ovo Energy has struck a £500m deal for the UK household business of its bigger rival SSE in a bold move that will turn it into one of Britain’s biggest energy suppliers, second only to British Gas. Founded a decade ago by former city trader Stephen Fi...