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Achmea preps impact-focused private debt strategy for Q3 launch

Achmea Investment Management is aiming to raise €250 million ($291 million) for a new private debt strategy for institutional investors, investing across four key impact themes predominantly in the Netherlands and north-west Europe.

Outcomes-based bonds: Compliance carbon credit market 'key' to scalability

The emergence of a compliance-driven, harmonised carbon credit market could be critical to supporting the scaling of the outcomes-based bond structure by reducing the need for an off-taker to get deals off the ground.

Social disclosure framework launched, warning of 'significant financial consequences'

The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) has launched a provisional disclosure framework, and warned of the risks that AI poses to workforces.

Water is a transatlantic issue, says Jefferies

Water as a consideration and investment theme has cross-geographic appeal, despite a more challenging environment for sustainability, according to investment bank Jefferies.

Investors may not replace 2030 targets, says Nordea AM

As 2030 approaches, many asset managers and owners may not replace their near-term sustainability targets, as they focus instead on longer-term goals, according to Nordea Asset Management.

Schroders Greencoat acquires biomethane platform

Schroders Greencoat, the renewable energy arm of Schroders Capital, has acquired a Dutch biomethane platform from SWEN Capital Partners.

BTG Pactual reaches final close on $1.2bn reforestation fund

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group has reached a final close on its Latin American Reforestation strategy, making it the largest ever reforestation fund, at $1.24 billion.

Christensen leaves Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors' head of sustainable & impact investment Matt Christensen has left the business after five years at the asset manager.

Impact investors in $114m ecosystem restoration fundraise

LGX: Attribution needed to 'turn impact metrics into meaning' (Debt conference)

Sustainable bond issuers need to provide clearer contextualisation for their impact data, to avoid the risk of it becoming "meaningless" for investors, Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) told an Environmental Finance event.