Cheshire-based Equilibrium Financial Planning – which manages £1bn for clients – has committed to invest client money only in fund groups that meet ESG criteria. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria include a range of environmental and social responsibility commitments. As part of the move Equilibrium has become a signatory to the UN’s Principles […]
On Tuesday, the Justice Department and 11 U.S. states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging, “For the sake of American consumers, advertisers, and all companies…the time has come to stop Google’s anticompetitive conduct and restore competition.” Yet, despite widespread, bipartisan censure, Google has been celebrated as a leader in “stakeholder capitalism”; its parent company, […]
A small U.K. startup has developed an algorithm that significantly reduces the level of quantum computing power needed to run a calculation that could pave the way for the development of exotic new materials. Scientists from the company, Phasecraft, along with researchers from the University of Bristol, showed that an important problem from quantum physics—one […]
