Is there life beyond the P/E ratio?

Trawling the bottom in Europe

Trawling the bottom in Europe

In union is strength

Caledonian collaboration

Most equity fund managers still like to group companies into two broad camps: growth companies, with strong earnings per share momentum; and value companies, those cheap in terms of share price to book value of their assets. But it is becoming increasingly fashionable to analyze companies by another very different standard: the extent to which they are sustainability-driven. Sustainable development, as defined by the UN’s Brundtland Commission, is investment that meets “the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

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