'It is not woke. It is capitalism': What BlackRock CEO Larry Fink thinks of the net zero transition

Cecilia Keating
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Fink speaking at the 2017 World Economic Forum | Credit: Flickr
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Fink speaking at the 2017 World Economic Forum | Credit: Flickr

Annual letter from boss of world's largest asset manager defends focus on climate action, but campaigners accuse BlackRock of continuing to invest heavily in fossil fuels infrastructure

The boss of the world's biggest asset manager has this morning cast the decarbonisation of the global economy as the "greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime", predicting that companies that fail...

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