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The Castlefield B.E.S.T Sustainable European Fund was launched in November 2017. We have reached 100% engagement coverage of our portfolio companies in the 11 months since its launch.

Good Money Week 2018

October 01/10/2018

Good Money Week - Castlefield Calendar: A Year of Female Empowerment

Always keen to don the hard hat and Hi-Viz, David Gorman takes a visit to Clyde Wind Farm.

BACKGROUND TO BREXIT

September 05/09/2018

How should we as custodians and investors of client assets respond to the possibility of a 'No Deal Brexit'?

In recent months the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) updated their governance codes.

Rory Hammerson, Fund manager for the B.E.S.T Sustainable European Fund, gives the Fund's view on the emerging crisis in the Turkish economy.

Out and About

August 10/08/2018

“Site visit season” has just ended. This is the period, usually from April to July, when companies are “at home” to visitors and when they host site visits and investor days.

We are delighted to be able to share the 2017/2018 Stewardship report and Voting Disclosure with you.

We’re in the build-up to EO Day this Friday 29th June and this year’s theme is to ‘Tell Your Story’, encouraging employee-owned businesses to share their experiences. As always, we have lots planned at Castlefield around EO Day, and telling our story is part of it.

Castlefield welcomed friends to the Manchester Art Gallery for our second summer event “VOTE 100: Gender Diversity and Investment”. The aim was to explore diversity as a responsible investment theme.

Barclays CEO

May 15/05/2018

Here at Castlefield we’ve been monitoring for some time the investigations into the conduct of Barclays’ CEO, Jes Staley.

Last week Castlefield became the latest investor to join the Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) initiative.