Archive

  • The ESG data files, part six: TCFD and the challenge of looking forward

    18 November 2019

    Requests for strategic information about the risks and opportunities posed by climate change have proved a step too far for many. Joe Walsh and Peter Cripps report

  • Kairos Partners launches long-short fund based on ESG index

    15 November 2019

    Kairos Partners SGR has launched an actively managed, long-short fund that will use an ESG index as its underlying benchmark.

  • BlackRock launches Europe's first ESG high-yield bond ETFs

    14 November 2019

    Asset manager BlackRock has launched two high-yield environmental, social and governance (ESG) bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

  • GRESB and Verisk Maplecroft launch climate risk scorecard

    13 November 2019

    Real estate sustainability assessor GRESB and risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft have collaborated to create a Climate Risk & Resilience Scorecard.

  • Oil Fund aims for 1% of investments in renewables by 2022

    12 November 2019

    The managers of the $1.1 trillion Norwegian sovereign wealth fund have set a target to invest about 1% of the fund’s value in renewables by 2022.

  • New framework needed for assessing ESG within ABS

    11 November 2019

    A new framework is needed to help assess environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations within asset-backed securitisations (ABS), according to Hermes Investment Management

  • Boston Common: Banks fail to tackle deforestation

    11 November 2019

    Less than two-fifths of banks have demanded anti-deforestation policies from the companies they lend to, according to a report from Boston Common Asset Management (BCAM).

  • Private banks double the number of sustainable funds offered

    08 November 2019

    Private banks have doubled the number of sustainability-themed funds they offer, compared with a year ago, but they are still "far behind" when it comes to integrating sustainability into their business, a report argues.

  • Green bond issuance could pass $250 billion in 2019, says Moody's

    08 November 2019

    Moody's has upgraded its prediction for green bond issuance in 2019, to $250 billion, after a stronger than expected third quarter.

  • Euronext launches green bonds section

    06 November 2019

    European stock exchange group Euronext is to launch a green bond section across its six markets, basing the initiative out of Dublin.