Archive

  • BlackRock among the investors as cleantech company raises C$280m

    08 February 2018

    Cleantech company Enerkem has completed its largest investment round, which saw BlackRock and Sinobioway become shareholders.

  • TCFD: Investors should use 'building blocks' to assess climate scenarios

    06 February 2018

    Investors should question whether the climate scenarios produced by the companies they own are credible, by considering five key aspects, a report has argued.

  • BlackRock introduces new low-carbon index fund

    22 January 2018

    BlackRock has launched a low-carbon index fund within its Tax Transparent Fund (TTF) range.

  • BlackRock founder urges business leaders to contribute more to society

    17 January 2018

    BlackRock's founder and CEO Larry Fink has sent a letter to other CEOs telling them to do more to contribute to society or risk losing BlackRock's support.

  • People moves: BlackRock, Orsted Wind Power, Reed Smith, MSCI, CEFC, Fenix, US SIF, Lightsource, Renovate America and Highview Power

    12 January 2018

    BlackRock hires sustainability chief investment officer

  • Major investors demand more action from ESG index providers

    12 December 2017

    Equity index providers were urged by two of the world's largest investment organisations to develop more 'useable' indexes based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

  • Growing shareholder support for climate action still "a work in progress"

    06 November 2017

    Shareholder support for climate risk initiatives has surged in 2017 but some of the world's largest asset managers have only just started taking action, according to a report by 50/50 Climate Project.

  • Big in Japan?

    04 September 2017

    Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  • BlackRock and Aviva Investors to speak at Green Equities 2017 conference

    25 August 2017

    Big hitters including Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and John McKinley, director of the impact investing arm of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, have added their names to the stellar line-up of speakers at Environmental Finance's inaugural Green Equities 2017 conference.

  • ESG-themed ETFs see record inflows

    09 August 2017

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) themed exchange-traded products attracted record inflows in July.