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People Moves: AP3, Candriam and ESMA
24 May 2019The Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3), with SEK340.7 billion ($35.64 billion) of assets under management, has appointed Pablo Bernengo as its chief investment officer.
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French funds dominate top 10 European funds for climate performance
19 February 2019French funds dominate a list of the top ten European equity funds for climate performance.
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Candriam to divest more than €500m as part of coal exclusion policy
12 September 2018Luxembourg-based asset manager Candriam has announced it will divest from, and make no further investments in, thermal coal.
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Setting a European benchmark
10 September 2018The European Commission's bold proposals to reform benchmark regulation are designed to increase the flow of green finance and reduce the risk of 'greenwashing'. Michael Hurley asks why change is required
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Candriam warns EU of low-carbon benchmark perils
30 July 2018Luxembourg-based asset manager Candriam has warned the European Commission against being too narrow in its efforts to improve the sustainability profile of benchmark indexes.
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Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy
28 May 2018Climate 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.
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Climate-related risk will dent oil company valuation by 2020, fund managers predict
25 April 2018About 90% of fund managers expect that the valuation of international oil companies (IOCs) will drop 'significantly' within two years because of energy transition risks such as new legislation, a survey of organisations with more than $13 trillion in combined assets has found.
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Belgium plans to grow sovereign green bond to €10bn
28 February 2018A €4.5 billion ($5.5 billion) sovereign green bond issued by Belgium this week is expected to grow to a size of about €10 billion within four years, the Belgian Debt Agency said.
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CalSTRS selects eight ESG asset managers and could commit up to $1bn
05 February 2018The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) pension fund has selected eight environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused asset managers.
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Candriam global high-yield fund is first to be awarded French SRI label
08 January 2018A global high-yield fund from Luxembourg-based asset manager Candriam has become the first to receive the French Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) label.