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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

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Category: Finance

Sunday Times (Raconteur special report): Impact investing could change capitalism forever

Posted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by marinagerner

Sir Ronald Cohen is known as the father of British venture capital and a pioneer of social impact investment across… Read more Sunday Times (Raconteur special report): Impact investing could change capitalism forever

The Guardian: Smart bras and a light tracker: the wearable tech helping plug the medical gender bias gap

Posted on June 7, 2020October 19, 2020 by marinagerner

If you’re asked to imagine a person who has a heart attack, who do you see? Most of us think… Read more The Guardian: Smart bras and a light tracker: the wearable tech helping plug the medical gender bias gap

Money Observer: How to close the gender pay gap in finance

Posted on April 9, 2018December 2, 2021 by marinagerner

Last week saw the deadline for companies with over 250 employees in the UK to report their gender pay gap.… Read more Money Observer: How to close the gender pay gap in finance

Money Observer: Fertility and other surprising ways to spot a recession

Posted on February 28, 2018December 2, 2021 by marinagerner

Economists look to house prices, GDP and retail sales to predict the next recession. But a new study says we… Read more Money Observer: Fertility and other surprising ways to spot a recession

Money Observer: Barclays’ impact fund is a first for a bank – but should it be investing in military aircraft?

Posted on December 11, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

In September, Barclays announced the launch of the Multi-Impact Growth Fund, the first impact fund to be launched by a… Read more Money Observer: Barclays’ impact fund is a first for a bank – but should it be investing in military aircraft?

Money Observer: How to measure the social impact of investments

Posted on September 21, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

People who invest in socially responsible funds can easily find out how their portfolios have performed financially, but historically it… Read more Money Observer: How to measure the social impact of investments

Money Observer: What Piketty has in common with reality TV

Posted on August 31, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

‘Who says a reality television show can’t convey an important message?’ asked my friend Elly Steinberg, who is a documentary… Read more Money Observer: What Piketty has in common with reality TV

Money Observer: Lessons from the monkey sanctuary

Posted on June 19, 2017June 25, 2018 by marinagerner

Last week I went on a holiday to Tel Aviv. Given how weak the pound is, my friend and I… Read more Money Observer: Lessons from the monkey sanctuary

Money Observer: How about making trainers more sustainable

Posted on April 20, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

I have never heard a laugh as loud as the one let out by my local cobbler when I brought… Read more Money Observer: How about making trainers more sustainable

Money Observer: Here’s what Brexit is doing to our diet

Posted on April 17, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

As we know, inflation is upon us, and it’s on an upward trend. Once a month, the Office for National… Read more Money Observer: Here’s what Brexit is doing to our diet

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Some poetry while you’re here

In a crowded London shop
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

– W.B. Yeats

How dreary – to be – Sombody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

– Emily Dickinson

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

– Wendy Cope

Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun’s!

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

– WH Auden

I used to think all poets were Byronic-
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met a few. Yes it’s ironic-
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
They’re mostly wicked as a ginless tonic
And wild as pension plans.

– Wendy Cope again

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