Archive

  • S&P expands low-carbon indexes with three Canadian additions

    03 November 2015

    S&P Dow Jones Indices has partnered with the Toronto Stock Exchange to launch three climate change indexes for Canada.

  • Dow Jones launches sustainability indexes for Chile and South Africa

    08 October 2015

    S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has continued its push into emerging markets with new sustainability indexes in Chile and South Africa.

  • S&P takes on 'challenge' of climate change by expanding range of low-carbon indexes

    18 September 2015

    S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has expanded its family of low-carbon indexes to cover more regions.

  • GE consortium backs A$450m wind project in Australia

    26 June 2015

    A consortium of investors will finance Australia's third-largest wind project in a sign of renewed interest in the country after politicians reached an agreement on its renewables target.

  • RobecoSAM, S&P Dow Jones launch ESG-tilted sovereign bond index

    08 April 2015

    Asset management firm RobecoSAM has teamed up with S&P Dow Jones Indices to develop a sovereign bond index that reflects countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

  • High times for low-carbon indexes

    18 February 2015

    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

  • Jupiter Ecology dropped from Hargreaves Lansdown's favourites list

    13 February 2015

    Jupiter's Ecology fund has been dropped from a list of 150 favourite funds compiled by UK investment supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown, which said it had lost its conviction that manager Charlie Thomas can outperform.

  • Profile: Neil Eckert - Aggregated Micro Power

    18 November 2014

    Former Climate Exchange CEO Neil Eckert believes small-scale biomass has an important and potentially lucrative role to play in the energy transition. Peter Cripps reports on his latest venture

  • Bank of America, GE, Schlumberger dropped from Dow Jones sustainability index

    11 September 2014

    General Electric, Bank of America Corp and Schlumberger have all been dropped from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) this year, following an annual review of constituents carried out by sustainable investment specialist RobecoSAM.

  • SWIP's Mackenzie moves on from sustainability role

    19 August 2014

    Craig Mackenzie - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's highly regarded head of sustainability research – has left his post to take on a new role, Environmental Finance has learned.