In late 2017, French insurer AXA said it planned to disinvest further from the coal industry.

One is to disinvest, the second is to stay and see whether you can change things, he said.

This approach is fraught with dangers -not just picking badly, but being unwilling to disinvest in political winners which look like being losers.

Oldman said it was "completely unrealistic" to expect the Church to disinvest from any of the big British companies despite their unethical behaviour.

When the going got tough, most of them disinvested or dumped their risky assets and ran to cash.

We don't have the capacity in youth work... that we used to have, and we have disinvested in the community development approach.

In those redline areas, banks would not lend, banks pulled out, insurance companies would not insure houses and businesses disinvested from those communities.