Archive

  • Robeco steps up palm oil engagement with exclusions

    11 March 2019

    NN Investment Partners (NN IP) and Actiam have joined Robeco in urging palm oil producers to improve the sustainability of their operations, as the latter steps up plans to exclude investments in the worst-performing companies.

  • Actiam launches passive sustainable real estate fund

    04 March 2019

    Dutch asset manager Actiam has launched a passively-managed sustainable real estate fund targeting investments that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Financial sector develops methodology for biodiversity impact

    22 November 2018

    Financial institutions have developed a methodology to measure their global impact on biodiversity, which will enable them to help support its conservation.

  • IBRD marks 10 years of green bonds with $1.2bn issue

    14 November 2018

    The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), part of the World Bank Group, has issued two benchmark green bonds to mark the tenth anniversary of its entry into the market in 2008.

  • Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative

    31 October 2018

    More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".

  • Actiam New Member of the ICMA Executive Committee

    19 June 2018

    The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) announced Foppe-Jan van der Meij of Actiam as its new member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBP) at the annual meeting on 14 June 2018.

  • Belgium plans to grow sovereign green bond to €10bn

    28 February 2018

    A €4.5 billion ($5.5 billion) sovereign green bond issued by Belgium this week is expected to grow to a size of about €10 billion within four years, the Belgian Debt Agency said.

  • Actiam joins IIGCC

    22 February 2018

    Dutch asset manager Actiam has joined the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).

  • Dutch financial firms take action on carbon footprint

    13 December 2017

    Twelve Dutch financial institutions have developed a methodology for measuring the carbon footprint of their investments and loans.

  • Mapping the SDGs

    11 December 2017

    Two years on from the launch of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, how are investors responding, asks Peter Cripps