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Sovereign 'tension' with corporate sustainable bond investments needs addressing

Institutional investors should find ways to address the "tension" emerging between how they manage their corporate and sovereign bond portfolios around decarbonisation, according to an influential fixed income expert.

Erlandsson: Transition-linked bonds more impactful than use-of-proceeds equivalent

Transition-linked bonds are more impactful than use-of-proceeds focused transition debt instruments, because they "hard-code" transition targets at issuer-level, according to an influential sustainable fixed income expert.

AFII founder Erlandsson to rejoin AP4

Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) founder Ulf Erlandsson will rejoin Swedish pension fund AP4, with Justine Leigh-Bell taking over as sole CEO at the sustainable fixed income think tank.

AP4, Invesco publish carbon neutrality report

Blume Equity secures €25m funding from British Patient Capital for first fund

Investors target Volkswagen for climate lobbying

Seven European investors have co-filed a shareholder resolution with Volkswagen for "trailing behind its peers" to report its climate lobbying, after more than three years of dialogue with the car company.

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

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

€40bn planned climate endowment to invest in 'green industrial revolution'

A planned "climate endowment" fund hopes to raise between €20 billion ($22.6 billion) and €40 billion to enable institutional investors to invest in "the champions of the green industrial revolution".

Investors up pressure on mining companies to disclose

A group of investors with $10.3 trillion in assets has demanded that mining companies provide disclosures, within 45 days, on every tailings facility under their control.

Why AP4 is making the shift to a 2°C aligned portfolio

What is the outcome of AP4's series of scenario analyses so far, asks Elena K. Johansson.