oil
Industry
The debate concerning negative interests in the UK has now become “very real” after the UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) 12-month inflation rate dipped to 0.8% in April from 1.5% in March, recording its lowest reading since August 2016 and putting it on...
20 May 2020
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2 min read
Investment
UK inflation fell from 2.3% to 2.1% in December, approaching its lowest rate for two years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
16 January 2019
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2 min read
Investment
The fall in commodities has meant the value of oil and gas company bonds has fallen by more than $150bn (£105.1bn) since June 2014.
22 March 2016
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1 min read
Risk Management
There would be little to gain from Britain leaving the EU, according to a paper from BlackRock Investment Institute (BII).
03 March 2016
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2 min read
Defined Benefit
Defined benefit (DB) schemes have not had a good start to the year with falling oil prices and low interest rates according to JLT Employee Benefits.
01 February 2016
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1 min read
Investment
Church Commissioners for England has co-filed a shareholder resolution at ExxonMobil to force the US oil and gas giant to disclose how it will cope in a lower carbon world.
19 January 2016
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2 min read
Corporate Governance
Royal Dutch Shell is set to buy its smaller rival BG Group for almost £50bn in the biggest deal in the energy sector for decades.
08 April 2015
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Investment
Investors are moving into assets which have a higher fixed yield than a government bond according to Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) economist James Carrick.
05 February 2015
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Investment
Oil prices have rapidly declined since last summer. Charlotte Moore looks at why this has happened and asks what the impact will be on pension schemes.
27 January 2015
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7 min read
