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  • AP4 pension fund divests from 22 coal companies

    26 June 2018

    The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) has divested from 22 coal companies to reduce the carbon footprint and climate risk in its global equities portfolio.

  • Amundi's early mover

    21 June 2018

    Frédéric Samama has been a key mover in the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition, the creation of low-carbon indexes, and now the world's biggest green bond fund. He talks to Peter Cripps

  • Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy

    28 May 2018

    Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.

  • Mats Andersson's report urges Sweden to issue green bond

    12 January 2018

    Sweden has been urged to follow in France's footsteps and issue a sovereign green bond, by a government-commissioned report into how it can nurture the green bond market.

  • Three institutional investors join $800bn Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition

    15 December 2017

    Three institutional investors managing about $376 billion in combined assets have joined the UN's Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition (PDC).

  • 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

  • ESG indexes: in the sweet spot

    20 September 2017

    Billions have flowed into funds tracking ESG indexes or low-carbon indexes in recent months. What are the innovations that will drive further growth, asks Peter Cripps

  • NZ Super moves $10bn passive equities to low-carbon

    16 August 2017

    New Zealand Super Fund has shifted its NZ$14 billion ($10 billion) global passive equity portfolio into a low-carbon strategy.

  • Social bonds are a 'distraction' from green bonds

    19 June 2017

    Social bonds are a 'distraction' from green bonds, as most mainstream investors are just getting used to the latter, Ulf Erlandsson, senior portfolio manager at Swedish pension fund AP4, told Environmental Finance's Green Bonds Europe Conference.

  • KommuneKredit joins Scandi green bond party

    24 May 2017

    Danish institution KommuneKredit has priced its inaugural green bond, making it the last of Scandinavian local government funding agencies to tap the market.