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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) aligned funds were, until recently, a one-way bet for the investment industry. The future looks less assured. ESG has turned into a highly sensitised issue, LSEG Global Head of Research Robert Jenkins noted in a recent article. “The term ESG has become near toxic and arguably weaponized in the U.S.” […]

A project is a mini-series, not a soap opera (although sometimes during a project’s lifecycle it can feel like it will never end). In other words, a contained event with a beginning (initiation and planning), a middle (implementation) and end (delivery and use). A project can be defined as “a complex, non-routine, one-time effort limited […]

When producer Anna Beattie was unsuccessfully pitching the idea for The Great British Bake Off I’m sure she had little inkling of the global phenomenon it would turn into, or the resurgent appetite for home baking it would prompt. Like millions of others I’m no pâtissière, but the Bake Off has inspired my own hit-and-miss […]