Attracta Mooney
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Every few years, the internet goes wild about my name (and that I used to be the FT’s investment correspondent). Today is one of those days. Although you can’t blame the Brits for my name.
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Some news: I'm back from maternity leave/holiday/sabbatical and I have a new job!
I'm now the FT's climate correspondent, taking over from the brilliant
@lesliehook
. Excited to work (more) with
@Emiliyadotcom
,
@CamillaHodgson
,
@Aime_Williams
. Scoops, tips, good contacts welcome
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“Bitcoin alone consumes as much electricity as a medium-sized European country,” says Professor Brian Lucey at Trinity College Dublin. “This is a stunning amount of electricity. It’s a dirty business. It’s a dirty currency.”
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This is mind blowing: the chancellor says there is no scenario that will leave the UK better off after exiting the EU. But the country is leaving anyway
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Larry Fink wrote in his letter to clients that BlackRock will now assess environmental, social and governance metrics “with the same rigour as traditional measures such as liquidity and credit risk”
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Look everyone, a pretty Mifid research chart (Also dealing with 55 asset managers is a hell of a lot of work)
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When the editor has to reassure readers that you are a real person...
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The Thames barrier has been so successful that people have forgotten the extent of the city’s vulnerability to flooding. Now on the barrier's 40th anniversary, there are questions about how much longer the barrier can last in the wake of climate change
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I asked the largest 30+ asset managers how many employees worked in stewardship and ESG jobs. Here’s the answer
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“Who was John Hume?” said a 34-yr-old Brit to me. My mouth dropped. Wish the British press covered his death the way it did McGuinness.
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I'm on mat leave now. But here's one of the final pieces I filed on whether there are signs the investment industry is *finally* starting to show its teeth on climate change
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Too hot to work: extreme heat has already cost the global economy trillions of dollars and it is going to get worse as industries from construction to manufacturing, agriculture and tourism are upended by heatwaves
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Nothing to see here, just the fourth month in a row of record-breaking temperatures. And 2023 set to be through hottest year on record
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Viral divestment tweets hit valuations: the 2018 viral news that the Dáil, Ireland’s parliament, voted to dump fossil fuel companies, wiped $14bn, or 3.1 per cent, off the collective market value of the biggest US oil, gas and coal companies
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This chart is fascinating. And also weirdly surprising. It feels like where I live far more than 40 per cent of the houses were built pre-1945
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This was the featured photo on my phone today and god, I miss home. I miss Offaly’s big skies. And the racket the cattle make. And that beautiful old farm house and its turf fires. And the pots of tea. And the light as it hits the Slieve Blooms
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Guys! Al Gore, a man who has been around the block when it comes to the climate crisis, is feeling upbeat that the world is *finally* getting its act together. "I’m more optimistic than I’ve ever been," he told me this week
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If anyone is wondering where half the men in the City are right now, they are in a queue to buy Valentine’s Day cards
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The UK’s biggest asset manager is set to punish Exxon over its stance on climate change
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Excuse of engagement on climate change is wearing thin. Big investors need to put their vote where their mouth is
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On the phone with a company, and a man says: "Do you know what assets under management means?" FML.
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It's Fat Cat Thursday, that exciting day of the year when FTSE100 bosses have earnt as much in three days as the average worker does in a year
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Oh god, I've been in England too long. Just responded to a colleague with "ta".
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We've had 11 consecutive months of record-breaking surface temperatures. The vast majority of countries were hotter than average in April. And that's before we even get into sea temps. "The record-breaking trends we are witnessing are highly unexpected," says
@Sir_David_King
Bonus chart showing the average anomaly by territory as a beeswarm, countries sized by population and coloured by region. More than 220 territories experienced above average temperatures for April
#dataviz
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Nothing to see here, just the first-ever year-long breach of 1.5C and the EIGHTH month in a row of record-breaking temperatures w/
@sdbernard
@janatausch
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Just got an email from a PR that starts with "Hi Mooney". This amuses me far more than it should.
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A great thing about Hiberno-English is the ability to use ye/youse. I feel sorry for British English speakers who lack this v useful plural
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Good day today - champagne, delicious lunch and won
#STTPressAwards
investment journalist of the year
@FT
@ftfm
@FTPressOffice
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What do you do when you're all about ESG but your external PR firm is accused of covert campaigns to boost the fossil fuel industry? by
@naumanbilly
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I think all workplaces should give us Tuesday off. It's going to be 21 degrees and sunny (at least in the south-east) . And after the last year we've all had, we should enjoy a nice sunny day.
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The most personal thing I've done for the FT: here's a video we made looking at farming and climate change, which we filmed partially on the farm I grew up on (big thanks to my big brother for putting up with us for two days!)
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External flack pitching an asset manager (on press day of all days).
Me: What's their assets under management?
Flack: Em, I don't know. Let me check.
[Silence]
Flack finally: Do you mean how much money they run?
Me: Yes
Flack: Em, I can ask them.
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My niece was born yesterday. This little girl and her mother are very special. Her mum is a specialist oncology nurse and was pregnant and worked looking after cancer patients all throughout the pandemic. It's been a crazy, tough year for my sister-in-law. But her & baby are well
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ICYMI - Aviva Investors is going to dump its holdings in 30 of the world's biggest oil, gas, mining and utilities businesses unless the companies meet its expectations on climate change
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My unread emails in my work inbox is inching towards 100,000 and I think perhaps when it hits that milestone I'll mark them all as read and just forget about all those messages I meant to get back to.
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A year away from the office has been catastrophic for my pen supplies. Now all I can find in the house to write with are crayons and colouring pencils
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With just days to go until COP28 kicks off, (painstaking) FT analysis reveals how the UAE has been linked to almost $200bn of green deals this year. Critics say it is trying to win influence, especially among developing countries
@Aime_Williams
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Over on Instagram
@WeeMissBea
is posting about ethical finance and all of a sudden this stuff I’ve been writing abt for years is mainstream
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Mat leave/shared parental leave officially over. Baby must fend for herself now.
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Of all the pieces I worked on in 2017, these were the toughest. Hard to overstate how upset the women I interviewed were
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The first stock take to examine the progress the world has made since the Paris agreement is out. Spoiler: we are way off track and need to take radical, urgent action
#climatechange
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Philip May is not a banker, does not work for a hedge fund and does not manage money. This is what he actually does:
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Back to the day job after a week off to do building work 💪
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Asked my daughter what cake she wanted for her 2nd birthday. Requested Christmas cake (much to my sadness, because I don’t eat it)
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Well this is quite something for all those shareholders who *say* they are worried about climate change: Energy groups must stop all new oil and gas exploration projects from this year if global warming is to be kept in check, the IEA says
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The sheer joy of ringing Irish people: 1) no one asks me to repeat my name 2) no one asks me to spell it 3) no one says it's strange/lovely
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“It is going to be boring old cables that literally trips us up on the path to decarbonisation” - how the grid globally is threatening the green energy transition and putting efforts to cut emissions at risk
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I’ve just turned on my out of office for the next six months. Which means no more commuting into central London! Getting the train and tube while pregnant been an interesting experience.
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Interesting day ahead. At a
@FProvFoundation
event where 5 asset managers will publicly battle it out to win an ESG mandate
#esgolympics
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The fund industry talks a good talk on the need for diversity at companies, but in their own businesses, there are very few women in portfolio management roles
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Small wins in the fight against
#everydaysexism
- two years ago, mortgage broker sends email addressed to my husband first then me, despite me dealing with the application (and husband never once speaking to them). This week, broker’s email is addressed to me first, then husband
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I had a baby earlier this month. Met wonderful midwives who gave brilliant care, but it was pretty clear they are struggling. One told me she couldn't remember the last time she had a toilet break on shift, let alone an actual break.
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Schroders, the UK's largest listed fund house, has joined the growing list of investors concerned abt climate change
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"[Investors] can’t simply bless every company’s climate plans. These are difficult issues, with uncertain answers, that deserve full scrutiny and debate... As more plans come to a vote, the threshold for support has to rise"
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After almost two decades, today was the last ever weekly print issue of
@FTfm
. Get your weekly dose of fund news via
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Telephone call from PR just now.
PR: I wanted to check if you write about companies and executives.
Me (a journalist on a business paper):
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Here's Steve Eisman, who Steve Carell played in the Oscar-winning film, on the next big short
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Blockchain has the "potential to radically change the whole concept of asset management", says Damon Williams
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While the world has been battling the pandemic, asset managers have embarked on a different fight:
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I asked >55 asset managers how they are going to pay for research under Mifid II. And then I made a great big table
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The challenges facing farming as it grapples with its contribution to climate change, alongside its role in local communities, economies and food security, are difficult and often emotive. Big thanks to
@pippa_hackett
@brianrushe81
@IFAD
@GMH_HaydenM
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The unlikely climate change activists: how British Christians are leading the fossil fuel divestment debate
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All the Irish people are doing everything thing they can to avoid saying the IRA, in relation to the inflation reduction act. One Irish man earlier called it Biden's green energy bill, never once saying IRA. I say the whole thing all the time.
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"The next crisis will not be about banking, but the insidious danger that pension funds deflate, leaving a generation without enough money to retire."
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Lol: "Almost half (47%) of investors aged under 35 believe they will be able to retire before they get into their 60s, according to new research from Rathbone Investment Management"
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Today I'm wondering how many people in the UK realise they are v likely to have invested in non-UK-based funds through their pension fund?
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My 70-year-old father (and farmer) was saying to me last week that he couldn’t ever remember a time when so little had been planted before Easter. It’s brutally hard for food production at the moment
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TFW you're on a work call in the office and a mouse runs over your shoe, so you scream
#FTmice
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It's finally happened. After years of fraught campaigning and protests by students and academics, Cambridge uni's endowment - one of Europe's largest - says it will ditch fossil fuels
@siobhan_riding
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I have to say, this is turning into a very lively AGM season when it comes to pay. Shareholders really do seem willing to punish what they deem as bad behaviour. There is going to be a lot of companies on the IA register/naughty list
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I got a new baby nephew this morning and have been sent a lovely picture of him, enjoying a newspaper. But it's not the FT, it's the
@farmersjournal
. I will have to work on this.
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Good week for women in asset management: first Shemara Wikramanayake was named chief executive of Macquarie, now Anne Richards takes the top job at Fidelity International
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There are a lot of tweets today that could do with this friendly Colombian reminder (taken in an airport there back in 2016)
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Oh god, I don’t think I can cope with reading another total misunderstanding of the Irish election from the British press/twitter etc.
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In the City of London, a new police is emerging. Meet the individuals tasked with holding corporate Britain to account:
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Barclays shareholders have filed the first ever climate change resolution at a European bank
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Exciting day: I’ve been hoping I’d get to go on this plane for ages! It’s always nice to meet another Attracta (even if it’s a plane)
@AerLingus
#stattracta
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Wonder what this means for banks and fossil fuel lending? The UN has told banks including Citi, Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas that their financing of Saudi Aramco may be in violation of climate-related global human rights rules
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For the day that's in it, here's some cows on my family's farm in the Slieve Bloom mountains
#CowAppreciationDay
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This is now the longest I've ever been away from home. And it's an absolute killer. I've got a new niece I've never met and my family will shortly not have seen my daughter for half of her life. Such a hard year for everyone who lives away from their families.
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Big move by the oil fund, which is among the big investors increasingly shunning companies with big coal operations
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Person X (often the receptionist): Who's calling?
Me: Attracta from the FT
Them: Who?
Me: Attracta at the FT
Them: 😕🤔
Every single day
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A family friend, a good neighbour, died tragically in an accident this week. Today local men - his friends and neighbours - will dig his grave, a gentle gesture I’ve always thought shows the true kindness and spirit of rural Ireland
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Written evidence that I'm Colm Tóibín's favourite Irish FT reporter
#winning
#favouriteauthor
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None of these Irish names are hard to say. And their spellings make absolute sense in the Irish language, which is a much older language than English. (There are Irish names that are hard for English speakers to say, but these aren't them)
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Get women back to work, they say. Maybe first sort the huge cost of childcare, which makes many families believe they would be better off with one parent not working
Just received the inevitable email. Nurseries fees up by 12% from April. So that’s now £1,000 a month for 3 days a week 😭😭😭
@PregnantScrewed
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Bill Gates on all things climate related, from new climate tech and what a good COP28 might look like to his views on the UK’s net zero efforts and the role of carbon capture/CCS in the future
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Europe's new anti-greenwashing rules could have huge repercussions, not just for savers and the investment industry - but also for companies around the world that rely on asset managers for capital
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"Otherwise, we’re just spectators watching a car crash"
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How millennials are changing the asset management industry
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Whenever I (fairly rarely) see someone else called Attracta, I always think “excuse me, you’ve stolen my name”.
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My 80-something-year-old aunt asked me the other day what surname to put on a card addressed to my husband and me. And I was glad that she didn't assume we'd have the same surname. Because we don't.
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@Adgarpo1
@RobertSecundus
@Analytiquity
There is just one of me in the world. And I am real. The blonde woman is a former lecturer of mine, Debbie Ging. No idea why her picture comes up with mine.
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Scoop: The UAE is set to announce a $30bn climate-focused fund at
#COP28
, with new local asset manager Lunate working with BlackRock, Brookfield and others w/
@Aime_Williams
@simeonkerr
@brookeamasters
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