European maritime finance– inviting investors to take part in the decarbonization of shipping

Last year, Henderson European Focus Trust and Henderson EuroTrust merged to form Henderson European Trust (LSE: HET), with £680m of assets (after significant cash exits) and a well-regarded management

Trade tariffs, the Russia-Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine crises are all issues F&C’s Paul Niven takes in his stride

Many years back as a young journalist I was invited to a press conference at a hotel complex where the smooth-talking owner presented an exciting plan to build a series of ‘Eco Pods’ on the land behin

Back in the 1970s multihull saillors were generally a pretty esoteric lot. It didn’t help that Donald Crowhurst ushered in the new decade with his tragic exploits in his Teignmouth Electron trimaran.

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Out of puff: Second-quarter revenue at Connecticut-based Marlboro-maker Philip Morris International (PMI) rose 7.1% from a year earlier, to $10.1bn – slightly short of analysts’ expectations of $10.3b