Archive

  • ESG engagement really does work, say investors

    20 May 2019

    Investors have proved that they have the power to bring about changes in company behaviour, when they engage with them on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and they even have the potential to influence national governments, a panel at an MSCI conference heard.

  • People moves: Loomis Sayles, APG Asset Management, Axa Investment Managers and NatureBank Asset Management

    20 April 2018

    Loomis Sayles has appointed Kathleen Bochman as director of environmental, social and governance (ESG).

  • Green bond round-up, 7 June

    07 June 2017

    Dutch public sector lender Nederlandse WaterschapsBank (NWB) has issued a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) affordable housing bond, its first in the social bond market.

  • 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.

  • France's sovereign green bond could reach €13bn this year

    25 January 2017

    The French Treasury has issued a mammoth €7 billion ($7.5 billion) green sovereign bond, which is almost twice the size of the previous largest green bond and could be increased to €13 billion later this year.

  • Infrastructure investors 'still not reporting environmental metrics'

    12 October 2016

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are being increasingly incorporated into infrastructure investment, but environmental data is still not being widely reported.

  • KfW completes its 2015 green bond programme with $1bn issue

    11 November 2015

    German development bank KfW has priced a $1 billion, five-year, green bond, making it the biggest issuer in the market this year.

  • Aquila launches hydropower fund for institutional investors

    07 May 2015

    Aquila Capital, a German asset management company, is launching what it claims will be the first fund for institutional investors dedicated to European hydropower.

  • APG to double renewables investments to €2bn

    25 September 2014

    Dutch pension firm APG Asset Management plans to double its investments in sustainable energy to €2 billion ($2.6 billion) over the next three years.