Planet Business: The time for reallocating capital is now

World’s top asset manager faces mounting concerns over its fossil fuel investments

Friday interview: Jim Barry, investment chief at BlackRock Alternative Investors

Hundreds of US’s biggest public companies have shed their shareholder-first ideology

Pilita Clark: A planned global action in September will test corporate resolve on the issue

A record number of investors say the global economy is in its late-cycle stages

Climate debate is shifting and companies are failing to match green claims with action

Many investors, sceptical of US rally, have kept piles of money on the sidelines

Early signs that asset management industry has turned a corner after brutal 2018

Banks and asset managers steer their EU operations from London to French capital

Focusing on quarterly earnings estimates, critics say, promotes corporate short-termism

Ethical investors can outperform if they engage with corporate sinners

French president Emmanuel Macron’s charm offensive to win business from the City of London is starting to pay

Event is one of key moments of three-day ‘working visit’ to UK by US president

Developers of quiz show-based app face challenges posed by exponential growth

It comes as the world’s largest exchange operator plans to offer futures on bitcoin

World’s largest asset manager attracted a record $74bn during the most recent quarter while assets under management jumped 16% to nearly $5.7 trillion

Ireland is among four countries competing to become BlackRock’s EU base

Global economic volatility is at its lowest level in over 40 years, says JPMorgan

Ethical investment is now big business, but are investors doing well out of doing good?

Actively managed funds are losing out to computerised investment strategies

Stocktake: Worrying about Trump, don’t believe the hype and snapping up the wrong ‘Snapchat’

Lloyd Blankfein ‘talks tough’ to British prime minister about financial services

Investors are debating the Sanford Bernstein report which warns that the growth of index funds may distort markets, but such concerns are not new

Founder of bond powerhouse Pimco warns against ‘a supernova that will explode one day’

Exchange-traded funds have revolutionised the investing world but some say they have yet to be tested in times of crisis

Do exchange-traded funds actually tempt investors into trading too much?

Views contrast with market expectations of imminent increase in benchmark rate

Predictions from 2014 that came true

Companies and executives accused of moving from a value-creation approach to one of value extraction

Now coming to Ireland, the aim is to increase the number of women at senior corporate level

ETFs have the potential for accelerated earnings but there are risks

World Cup winners can look forward to ‘honeymoon bounce’

New study shows typical public company boss earned a record $10.5 million in 2013