Europe’s male, pale and stale boardrooms face the same fate as the most polluting companies — evolve or die. In recent years, the fund management industry has started to take its environmental, social and governance responsibilities more seriously, mostly by shunning investments deemed damaging to the planet. But there’s another thread to ESG that’s poised to reshape investment behavior and ...

Fast Retailing Co. should consider applying the brakes. The owner of the Japanese chain Uniqlo is planning to open stores in India as part of a greater push internationally amid a shrinking population and sluggish wages at home. Building stores in Asia’s third-largest economy makes sense, so long as it’s done right. Fast Retailing expects Uniqlo’s international takings to surpass ...

Tuition fees have become one of the hot-button issues of British politics again and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is expected to confirm the Tory pledge to freeze tuition fees when he issues his budget today. The Labour Party wants to abolish them entirely, endearing itself to younger voters. But so far neither Conservative nor Labour approaches get at ...