the influential Californian pension fund, have emerged as some of the maiden investors in Virgin Group's first green investment fund. Sir Richard Branson, Virgin's founder, pledged to invest $3bn in alternative energy projects over a decade in September 2006 and last year

Times Online - Virgin Money has made a volte-face on Sir Richard Branson's promise to preserve "99 per cent" of Northern Rock's jobs, admitting it will have to make redundancies to meet the Government's three-year repayment strategy. Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the chief ...