Fiona Rintoul

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Opinion: Farewell to all that

All good things must come to an end. From next month, I’m handing this column over to Liz Pfeuti. It’s been a pleasure –...

Opinion: What’s in a name?

Here in Scotland, hilarity greeted Standard Life Aberdeen plc’s rebranding as Abrdn plc. “Mdnss” tweeted Graeme Smith, former editor of Glasgow-based paper the Herald,...

Opinion: Greening the bond markets

It’s getting harder not to be green. This is nowhere more apparent than the bond markets. Late to the party, bonds are greening so...

Net-zero: Putting China’s zero-carbon target into practice

How does China’s commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 dovetail with high-quality growth and investment opportunities? Fiona Rintoul reports. If there’s one thing we...

Opinion: The diversity challenge

If one person owned the US presidential inauguration in January, it was not Joe Biden, not even Kamala Harris, the first ever female vice...

Opinion: Natural selections

Before I sat down to write this column, I was in the garden finishing off tanning a deer hide. This is my life in...

Opinion: Big tech: an ethical choice?

And so, 2020 grinds to a close in all its fetid glory. What a year! The horror of a pandemic. The joy of a (potentially)...

Water: Where water strategies reign

The investment case for water can be hard to understand – or can even arouse ill feeling, writes Fiona Rintoul. Water falls from the sky; it...

Opinion: When banks were banks

On October 31, it was World Savings Day – or World Thrift Day as it used to be known. This was established in 1924...

France: Catering to French tastes

Asset managers in France still face tough competition from banks and money market products. Fiona Rintoul hears what some firms have been doing for...

Exchange-traded funds: Mapping Hong Kong’s ETF market

Assets under management in exchanged-traded funds are burgeoning, but growth is concentrated in the US and Europe, writes Fiona Rintoul. By the end of August 2020,...

Opinion: Our daily bread

If you’re anything like me, you’re probably sick of the Covid-19 pandemic by now. The early days when battening down the hatches at home...

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