ERAFP awards €2.5bn SRI bond mandates
French public service pension scheme ERAFP has awarded €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) socially responsible investment (SRI) credit bond mandates to three asset managers.
High times for low-carbon indexes
The oil rout and the intensifying stranded assets debate have boosted investor interest in low-carbon indexes. What are the differences between the growing number of products on offer, and how are they performing? Sophie Robinson-Tillett reports
Quotes of the quarter
As the calendar year wraps up, Environmental Finance takes a look back at some of the quotes that defined the last quarter.
Amundi to offer alternative to green bonds
Investment giant Amundi expects to develop a low-carbon debt product as an alternative to the green bond market, and expects it to attract "huge" levels of interest.
Amundi, EDF reveal plans for €1.5bn private equity venture
French asset manager Amundi has joined forces with energy utility EDF to raise up to €1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) for private equity investments in low-carbon energy and energy efficiency projects.
The thinking behind Amundi's low-carbon push
Amundi's Frédéric Samama talks to Sophie Robinson-Tillett about the firm's decarbonisation pledge, its planned low-carbon fund and how investors should be responding to climate change
ERAFP to reduce carbon in €750m portfolio
French public service pension scheme, ERAFP, is to reduce by 40% the carbon intensity of a €750 million ($951.4 million) portfolio managed by Amundi.
Investor coalition pledges to 'decarbonise' $500bn of assets
A coalition involving two of the largest asset managers in Europe has set a target of 'decarbonising' $500 billion of institutional investments.
MSCI launches low-carbon indexes
MSCI has launched a set of low-carbon indexes, which have won the backing of major investors the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) and Amundi.